Michael

“It really is 11:59pm on the “Age of Religions” clock for humankind. It is time to move on.”
― Peter Klein, Beyond God - Why Religions are False, Outdated and Dangerous

“The wisest of nations, cities, and men in every age have held by certain general principles of thought and action : to this ancient tradition the Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians and Indians, Samothracians and Druids, alike adhere ; but the Jews and Moses have no part nor lot in it. I pass by those who explain away the Mosaic records by plausible allegorising. The Mosaic account in regard to the age of the world is false: the flood being in the time of Deucalion was comparatively recent. Neither the teaching nor the institutions of Moses have any claim to originality. He appropriated doctrines which he had heard from men and nations of repute for wisdom. He borrowed the rite of circumcision from the Egyptians. He deluded goatherds and shepherds into the belief that there was one God — whom they called the Highest, or Adonai, or the Heavenly, or Sabaoth, or whatever names they please to give to this world — and there their knowledge ceased. It is of no import whether the God over all be called by the name that is usual among the Greeks, or that which obtains among the Indians or Egyptians.”
― Celsus, The Fragments of Celsus

“The Bible also commands you to kill a bride discovered not to be a virgin... and Jesus recommends plucking out your eyes if you lust after a woman (Mt 5:28-29). To be a good Christian and blend into modern society one must be very skillful at choosing one’s cherries.”
― Michael Paulkovich, Beyond the Crusades: Christianity's Lies, Laws and Legacy

“Utter trash. —the Greek intellectual Celsus evaluates the Old Testament”
― Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World