Faith is more basic than language or theology.
Theology
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.