Quote#Wisdom
The popular theology, it must be owned, has many repulsive aspects.…
Quote byGeorge Holyoake · 1817–1906
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Limits of Atheism: Or, Why Should Sceptics be Outlaws? 1874, p. 15.
English (original)
The popular theology, it must be owned, has many repulsive aspects. The vulgarest and most illiterate believer is encouraged to profess a familiar and confident knowledge, hidden from the profoundest philosophers. It is an unanswerable position, that had God spoken, the universe would have been convinced.
— George Holyoake
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