KARLHEINZ DESCHNER

The Christians wrested the Old Testament out of the hands of the Jews and used it as a weapon against them.

My skepticism warns me of the danger of becoming a fanatic, a danger which no faith has yet averted.

Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?

Democracy is the art of cheerfully pulling the wool over the eyes of the people, and doing so in their name.

Enlightenment is terror; when you light up the world, you make its filth clearer.

Theologian — the only kind of scholar who has no knowledge whatsoever of his supposed object of study.

Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accomplice.

“I would rather err with the majority than in my own way.” So thought Saint Augustine. I am of the reverse opinion.

Thoughts convince thinkers; for this reason, thoughts convince seldom.

Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion.

Theologian — the only kind of scholar who has no knowledge whatsoever of his supposed object of study.

Democracy is the art of cheerfully pulling the wool over the eyes of the people, and doing so in their name.

The Christians wrested the Old Testament out of the hands of the Jews and used it as a weapon against them.

My skepticism warns me of the danger of becoming a fanatic, a danger which no faith has yet averted.

Enlightenment is terror; when you light up the world, you make its filth clearer.

Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accomplice.

Thoughts convince thinkers; for this reason, thoughts convince seldom.

“I would rather err with the majority than in my own way.” So thought Saint Augustine. I am of the reverse opinion.

Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion.

Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?