Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaughwas an English political activist and an atheist and British republican. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 September 1833
christian jesus believe
On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was not forsaken. The explanation renders it difficult to believe the dying cry, and the passage becomes one of the mysteries of the holy Christian religion, which, unless a man rightly believe, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
christian taken biblical
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional men have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it, and that the specific points of advantage to human kind have been in ratio of their direct opposition to precise Biblical enactments.
christian atheist mean
The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.
christian feet trying
I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.
doubt atheism term
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour...
abuse freedom-of-speech denial
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
funeral atheism body
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.
should-have honor special
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.
fate humanity atheism
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?
mean sound affirmation
I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.
war ideas being-positive
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
strong memories regret
The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.