"Psychopathy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cruel execution in the belief that he would rise from the dead and come in glory to reign over a regenerated world. In this form, the political, economic and moral opinions of Jesus, as guides to conduct, are interesting and important: the rest is mere psychopathy and superstition. The accounts of the resurrection, the parthenogenetic birth, and the more incredible miracles are rejected as inventions; and such episodes as the conversation with the devil are classed with similar ...
— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw |
