end religion: human sacrifice, and, in particular,
the slaughter of children, cannibalism, sensual orgies, abject
superstition, hatred as between races, the maintenance of degrading
customs, hysteria, bigotry, can all be laid at it's charge. Religion is
the last refuge of human savagery.

ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN

The anthropomorphic God of the ancient world--the God of human passions,
frailties, caprices, and whims is gone, and with him the old duty to
propitiate him, so that he might be induced to treat you better than
your neighbor. Can anyone question the advance that has been made in
diminishing the prevalence of these medieval, essentially childish, and
essentially selfish ideas? The new God is the God of law and order; the
new duty, to know that order and to get into harmony with it, to learn
how to make the world a better place for mankind to live in, not merely
how to save your individual soul. However, once destroy our confidence
in the principle of uniformity, our belief in the rule of law, and our
effectiveness immediately disappears, our method ceases to be
dependable, and our laboratories become deserted.

ALBERT C. DIEFFENBACH

The plain truth is, thousands upon thousands of men and women have gone
out of the Church. They take no stock in its obsolete teachings to which
they once subscribed in order to become members. After great
tribulation, they have made their declaration of religious independence.
They have taken the right turn for their own salvation. The churches as
a whole do not know that today there is a violent intellectual
revolution among all people who think. The so-called theism that is
embalmed in the old theology and is still preached is utterly defunct
for many persons of this generation. Like it or not, that is a fact.

DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT

The creeds of the churches contain conceptions of God's nature and of
his action toward the human race which are intolerable to the ethical
mind of the twentieth century. The conception of one being, human or
divine, suffering, though innocent, for the sins of others, is revolting
to the universal sense of justice and fair dealing. No school, no
family, no court, would punish the innocent when the guilty were known.
This conception of God is hideous, cruel, insane, and no Christian
church which tolerates it can be efficient in the promotion of human
welfare and happiness.

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