Archive for the ‘God & Religion’ Category

Anne Lamott on God & Religion

Monday, July 21st, 2008

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

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Jonathan Swift on God & Religion

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

- Jonathan Swift

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Robert A. Heinlein on God & Religion

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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Dalai Lama on God & Religion

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

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

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Douglas Adams on God & Religion

Friday, May 16th, 2008

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

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Albert Camus on God & Religion

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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

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Friedrich Nietzsche on God & Religion

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Stephen Roberts on God & Religion

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

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

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Judith Hayes on God & Religion

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

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

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Robert A. Heinlein on God & Religion

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

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

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