BEJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS, A BIOGRAPHY, by Randal Maurice Jelks: excerpt

“He, who lives in this modern age, enjoys the fruits of science and at the same time attempts to set aside as in valid all scientific truth is a fool. On the other hand, he who disdains religion, sets aside this vast field of knowledge and human experience in an endeavor to discredit its validity, to say the least, such a person is profoundly stupid...True religion is more than creeds and more than dogmas; it is neither forms nor rituals; it is more than the Bible itself, for religious experience created all these; before they were, religion was—destroy them and the meaning and place of religion in human history will remain unchanged.” pp.78-79, BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS: SCHOOLMASTER OF THE MOVEMENT, A BIOGRAPHY, by Randal Maurice Jelks (University of North Carolina Press: 2012)