Snake-handling Evangelist Dies During Sermon

On the night of October 3, 1998, a snake-handling evangelist named John Wayne Brown, Jr. was bitten by one of his own timber rattlesnakes in the middle ...

George Lucas on Belief in God

Star Wars director George Lucas said in Time:

"I put the Force in the movie (Star Wars) in order to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young ...

Poorest Notion

It is much worse to have a false idea of God than no idea at all.

Unknowing Idolators

I believe a very large majority of churchgoers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Counterfeit Holiness

The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is its lack of humility. Every seeker after holiness needs to be on his guard, lest unconsciously what was begun ...

God's Common Sense

Unfortunately, man cannot for long endure the common sense of God. Side by side with Christianity, and often mistaken for it, there has always existed ...

An Early View of Aviation

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery, and known forms of force can be united in a practical machine ...

Montesquieu's Opinion of the Population Crisis

The population of the earth decreases every day, and, if this continues, in another ten centuries the earth will be nothing but a desert.

Webster's View of American Expansion

I have never heard of anything, and I cannot conceive of anything more ridiculous, more absurd, and more affrontive to all sober judgment than the cry ...

A Nineteenth Century Opinion on Invention

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when further improvement must end.