Sir Winston Churchill on the Bible

    "We reject with scorn all those learned and labored myths that Moses was but a lengendary figure upon whom the priesthood and the people hung their essential social, moral, and religious ordinances.

    We believe that the most scientific view, the most up-to-date and rationalistic conception will find its fullest satisfaction in taking the Bible story literally and in identifying one of the greatest human beings with the most decisive leap forward ever discernable in the human history. 

    We remain unmoved by the tomes of Professors Grad-grind and Dr. Dryasdust. We may be sure that all things happened just as they are set out according to Holy Writ. We may believe that they happened to people not so very different from ourselves, and that the impressions those people received were faithfully recorded and have been transmitted across the centuries with far more accuracy than any of the telegraphed accounts we read of goings on of today. In the words of a forgotten work of Mr. Gladstone, we rest with assurance upon 'The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture.'

    "Let the men of science and learning expand their knowledge and probe with their researches every detail of the records which have been preserved to us from these dim ages. All they will do is to fortify the grand simplicity and essential accuracy of the recorded truths which have lighted so far the pilgrimage of man."