Lydia M. Child Quotes About Theology

Quotes about: Theology

• The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

  Lydia M. Child

  Beautiful, Selfish, Distance

• Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.

  Lydia M. Child

  Worst Enemy, Effort, Atheism

• Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!

  Lydia M. Child

  Effort, Doctrine, Puddles

• It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

  Lydia M. Child

  Evil, Done, World

  "The Progress of Religious Ideas Through Successive Ages". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Volume 3, 1855.

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