Anne Lamott on God & Religion
Monday, July 21st, 2008You 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.
- Anne Lamott
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.
- Anne Lamott
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- Jonathan Swift
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Dalai Lama
He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
- Albert Camus
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
- Judith Hayes
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
- Robert A. Heinlein