Calvin King

Written by Terry Plank on 11/11/2014. Posted in Mennonite

I’m a former Mennonite minister who served in two congregations in Kansas for a total of 30 years before resigning and entering the business world as a human resource manager. I distinctly remember reading through the Bible in 6 months when I was eight years old. I was surprised by God’s anger and destructiveness. Still I believed.

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“I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at least that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church." "For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power, and the canon law.”—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Degraded Status of Woman in the Bible" (1896) ... See MoreSee Less

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“Now at least, in our immediate day, we hear a Pope saying slave trading is wrong, and see him sending an expedition to Africa to stop it. The texts remain; it is the practice that has changed. Why? Because the world has corrected the Bible. The Church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession — and take the credit of the correction. As she will presently do in this instance.” (Photo by Matthew Brady of Twain in 1871)—Mark Twain, "Europe and Elsewhere" (1923) ... See MoreSee Less

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NNERVIEWS: Are you an atheist? WILSON: I guess I am in some ways your archetypal atheist. I think the whole myth of religion is absolutely absurd. I say this with the caveat that I understand it brings happiness to people who would otherwise be unhappy. There is comfort in it for people who would otherwise be tortured by their own existence and all that stuff. I appreciate those reasons and arguments, but at the end of the day, I’m afraid it’s just a silly fairy tale that mankind has dreamed up because of our fear of death. It’s as simple as that. --Steven Wilson ... See MoreSee Less

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"Belief in the Rapture should disqualify anyone from holding public office."—entertainer Michael John McKean post on Twitter (April 8, 2020) ... See MoreSee Less

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“[I]f anyone in this audience believes that God made his body, and your body is dirty, the fault lies with the manufacturer.”—Comedian Lenny Bruce (1925-1966), San Francisco Jazz Workshop, Oct. 4, 1961Compiled by Annie Laurie Gaylor© Freedom From Religion Foundation. All rights reserved. ... See MoreSee Less

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