“If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 21, “Village Purge” (p. 248)
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 42 (pp. 336-337).
“If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 21, “Village Purge” (p. 248)
“The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“Without God, everything is nothingness; and with God? Supreme nothingness.”
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Some Reasons Why (1881)
Context: The believer in the inspiration of the Bible is compelled to say, that there was a time when slavery was right, when women could sell their babes, when polygamy was the highest form of virtue, when wars of extermination were waged with the sword of mercy, when religious toleration was a crime, and when death was the just penalty for having expressed an honest thought. He is compelled to insist that Jehovah is as bad now as he was then; that he is as good now as he was then. Once, all the crimes that I have mentioned were commanded by God; now they are prohibited. Once, God was in favor of them all; now the Devil is their defender. In other words, the Devil entertains the same opinion to-day that God held four thousand years ago. The Devil is as good now as Jehovah was then, and God was as bad then as the Devil is now.
Ihr seid verblendet und dient dem Gott der Juden, der nicht der Gott der Liebe, sondern der Gott des Hasses ist. Warum hört Ihr nicht auf Christus, der zu den Juden sagte : "Ihr seid Kinder des Teufels!"
04/21/1932, speech in Nuremberg, Herkulessaal ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
“They say the devil is only antichrist, but why not also anti-God?”
As quoted in a eulogy for Darrow by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1938)
Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 24.