Of these two literatures [French and German], as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has beena critical effort; the endeavours, in all branches of knowledgeötheology, philosophy, history, art, scienceötoseethe object as initself it really is.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture 2.

Voyez-vous cet oeuf. C'est avec cela qu'on renverse toutes les e¤  coles de the¤  ologie, et tous les temples de la terre. Seethis egg.It iswith thisthat all theschools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.

-Diderot, Denis
  Le Re" v e de d'Alembert (published1830), pt.1.

The hope of science isthe perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a fewand the damnation of almost everybody.

-Ingersoll, Robert
  The Age of Reason, Mar.

Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.

-Miller, Arthur
  Hale. The Crucible, act 2.

Now it is on the whole more convenient to keep history and theology apart.

-Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
  A Short History of theWorld, ch.37.