(September 2, 2019 at 3:38 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(September 2, 2019 at 2:28 am)Belaqua Wrote: I think I found the original:
https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/quotatio...s_god.html
LOL!!! That theology is useless was discovered and said way before Dawkins. But first, if you really want to be a critic of Dawkins try reading some of his books.
Now, For instance Thomas Paine in 1795 concluded that the study of God, his nature, and his attributes—is as useless at understanding reality:
Quote:The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not any thing can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is not the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
You might enjoy the posthumously published writings of Jean Meslier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Meslier
