Science is the only savior.
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.
I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.
The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.
Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we know as Life and of all the ordinances which govern that universe and that make Life continuous. She is no more the Hebrew's Jehovah than she is the Physicist's Force; she is as much Providence as she is Electricity; she is not the Great Pattern any more than she is the Blind Chance.
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.
Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.