We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Luck is like an atheistic word for God.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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