"When the Bible takes its place besides the other Sacred Books of the East, it will call for no
"When the Bible takes its place besides the other Sacred Books of the East, it will call for no exposure. But that time is far distant, in spite of the great advances of what is called the Higher Criticism; and in the meantime it is a requisite, even if a thankless task to accentuate the false, foolish, and wicked features of the Bible, as an antedote to the reckless adulation of its bigoted devotees and mercenary flatterers."
"We desire that the church shall not be judged by its present promises, but by its past performance. We wish to show what it was in the evil days of its supremacy, when opportunity matched inclination, and it acted according to the laws of its nature, unchecked by science, freethought and humanity."
G.W. Foote and J.M. Wheeler – 1900 – co-editors of the Bible Handbook