“Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.”
Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist
Free the Airwaves! (2002)
“It was not so long ago that the Bible enjoyed a stranglehold similar to that of the Quran over vast populations in the West. The theocracies propped up by the Bible in Europe and America had enacted similar sagas of slaughter and pillage for several centuries. But a sustained Western scholarship showed up the Bible for what it was. “It would be more consistent,” proclaimed Thomas Pain, “that we call it [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God.” The spell of Jehovah was broken…. The rest is history. Christianity is now seeking a refuge in countries like India where its rout in the West remains unknown.”
The Calcutta Quran Petition (1986)
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Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
John Burroughs, in "Religious Contrasts : Letters of Pantheist and a Churchman", in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 1921), p. 520.
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Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Dissertation for doctor of philosophy in christian education (May 25, 1991)
“So shut your Bibles up and show me how
The Christ you talk about
Is living now.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
"Present Tense"
Context: Your holy hearsay is not evidence.
Give me the good news in the present tense.
What happened nineteen hundred years ago
May not have happened.
How am I to know?
So shut your Bibles up and show me how
The Christ you talk about
Is living now.
“If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.”
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) Anglo-American temperance orator
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 37.
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Letter (8 November 1952); published in Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 247
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States
Inaugural Address (1989)
Context: I have just repeated word for word the oath taken by George Washington 200 years ago, and the Bible on which I placed my hand is the Bible on which he placed his. It is right that the memory of Washington be with us today, not only because this is our Bicentennial Inauguration, but because Washington remains the Father of our Country. And he would, I think, be gladdened by this day; for today is the concrete expression of a stunning fact: our continuity these 200 years since our government began.
We meet on democracy's front porch, a good place to talk as neighbors and as friends. For this is a day when our nation is made whole, when our differences, for a moment, are suspended.
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.96 (Unnamed * “scholarly writer”: London Times. December 4, 1954)
