Kent Forrest

“The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .”
― Robert Alley

“The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”
― David Bary

“Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.”
― Isaac Asimov