"One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this."

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The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.

— Rutherford B. Hayes