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Mr. D.
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Joined: 3/27/2008
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/9/2008 4:26:15 PM |
"How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook." - Unknown
You can see, hear, smell, touch & even taste a cook. They're everywhere. Maybe you've seen one.....
Now show me your Invisible Man. | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/10/2008 5:00:25 PM | When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
Stephen King.
“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…”Dalai Lama
“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.” | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/11/2008 12:46:38 AM | here's mine...
"Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of[f] your evil behavior. 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven,..."
Paul the Apostle | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 3:02:41 PM | This is fun, I love quotes!
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. --Jonathan Swift
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
Things that will destroy man: Politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice. --Mohandas Gandhi
A cult is a religion with no political power. --Tom Wolfe
Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. --Lennie Bruce
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake. --H. L. Mencken
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshiped. --Evelyn Underhill
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it." George Bernard Shaw
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." William Shakespeare
"To love another person is to see the face of God." Victor Hugo
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain
Scriptures: the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. ~Ambrose Bierce
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~James Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy, 1973
Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ~Ambrose Bierce
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't. ~George Bernard Shaw
The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. ~George Bernard Shaw
Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on. ~Author Unknown
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. ~Mark Twain
Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else's stinks. ~Picket Fences
I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck. ~Author Unknown
Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? ~Author Unknown
Jesus saves... passes to Moses... shoots... scores! ~Author Unknown
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? ~Robert A. Heinlein
We are punished by our sins, not for them. ~Elbert Hubbard
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ~G.K. Chesterton | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 4:39:26 PM | religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell. spirituality is for people who have been there.
don't know who said that.... | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 5:17:00 PM | A few quotes from the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI:
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.”
"An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties."
"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. "
"God has a great sense of humor."
"Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly."
Quotes from my favorite author, G.K. Chesterton:
"One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created."
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."
"It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary."
"The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare to-morrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before."
"At least five times . . . with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died."
"It is perfectly true that afterwards the ship sank; but it is far more extraordinary that the ship came up again: repainted and glittering, with the cross still at the top. This is the amazing thing the religion did: it turned a sunken ship into a submarine. The ark lived under the load of waters; after being buried under the debris of dynasties and clans, we arose and remembered Rome." | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 5:17:50 PM | "Suffering has to come because if you look at the cross, he has got is head bending down - he wants to kiss you - and he has both hands open wide - he wants to embrace you. He has his heart opened wide to receive you. Then when you feel miserable inside, look at the cross and you will know what is happening. Suffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but the kiss of Jesus, a sign that you have come so close that he can kiss you...Suffering, pain, humiliation - this is the kiss of Jesus."
-Mother Theresa
I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
-Martin Luthor
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
-Martin Luthor
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
-John Morley
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
-Mark Twain
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 5:38:57 PM | My dear A Fortiori:
I'm pretty sure that's "Luther", not "Luthor". When you use that spelling, you make me mentally associate the 16th-century ex-monk with Superman's arch-nemesis...... are they one and the same? Hmm.... | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 6:16:55 PM | religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell. spirituality is for people who have been there.
This too is one of my favorites.
I have heard Deepak Chopra say that. Whether he originated it, I don't know.
"Suffering has to come because if you look at the cross, he has got is head bending down - he wants to kiss you - and he has both hands open wide - he wants to embrace you. He has his heart opened wide to receive you. Then when you feel miserable inside, look at the cross and you will know what is happening. Suffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but the kiss of Jesus, a sign that you have come so close that he can kiss you...Suffering, pain, humiliation - this is the kiss of Jesus."
-Mother Theresa
Wow!! Thats quite a twisted perception. It is in line with what she wrote in letters that were published after her death; that for most of her life she couldn't feel or see the God that she was supposed to be serving and that this crisis of faith lasted most of her life. No surprise here given the above quote. | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 6:25:17 PM | Lex Luthor: I've been thinking about that prophecy. I've got a new interpretation. Want to hear it?
Clark: Yeah.
Lex Luthor: This Naman guy is supposed to come from the stars, have the power of ten men, and shoot fire from his eyes, right?
Clark: It's just an allegory, Lex.
Lex Luthor: I know. But if one person could do all that, he'd be a formidable enemy. He could conquer the world. He could become a tyrant if no one kept him in check. So I've been thinking...anybody who'd be willing to fight him would have to be pretty brave.
Lex Luthor: Do you believe there are aliens among us, Clark?
Lex Luthor: Clark, you were tied to a pole in the middle of a field. Even the Romans saved that for special occasions.
Miss Teschmacher: Lex, why do so many people have to die for the crime of the century?
Lex Luthor: Why? You ask why? Why does the phone always ring when you're in the bathtub?
Lex Luthor: Do you believe a man can fly, Clark?
Lex Luthor: Is the world gonna be incinerated?
Superman: No. It's the same as it's always been: on the brink. With good fighting evil.
Lex Luthor: If I understood my father's insanity I'd be a much happier man.
Lex Luthor: I am the villain of this story.
Lex Luthor: Trust me Clark, Our friendship is going to be the stuff of legend.
Lionel: I'm proud of you.
Lex Luthor: [Sarcastically] Thanks, Dad. That means a lot coming from you. | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 9:51:43 PM | Apologies if I'm repeating any
Carl Sagan
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
Albert Einstein
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. 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."
"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
Hemingway
"All thinking men are atheists."
Mark Twain
"One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed in it. They have also believed the world was flat."
"The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a tousand lies."
"Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned."
Abraham Lincoln
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."
Benjamin Franklin
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
Thomas Jefferson
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
" I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies."
Thomas Paine
"The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense."
James Buchanan
"I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion"
Charles****ns
"Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it."
Warren G. Harding
"In the experiences of a year of the presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish."
Ashley Montagu
"The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Anyone who knows history will recognise that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
Bertrand Russell
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
"One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it."
John Lennon
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
"Imagine there's no heaven"
Frank Zappa
"There is no hell. There is only France." | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 11:11:10 PM | "Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth."
~Henry Mencken~
"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
~George Bernard Shaw~
"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
~Victor Hugo~
"Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains."
~Robert G. Ingersoll~
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
~Friederich Nietzsche~
"Religion... comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion."
~Sigmund Freud~
"I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue."
~Bertrand Russell~
"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."
~Sigmund Freud~
"I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted."
~ Adolf Hitler~
"Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever."
~Vladimir Lenin~
"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."
~Proverbs 22:6~
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/12/2008 11:38:08 PM |
"Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever."
~Vladimir Lenin~
"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."
~Proverbs 22:6~
OM....G.....Lenin was a Christian...or was it the other way 'round?  | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/13/2008 12:01:08 AM | | A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.-- D. L. Moody | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/13/2008 12:59:13 AM | My dear A Fortiori:
I'm pretty sure that's "Luther", not "Luthor". When you use that spelling, you make me mentally associate the 16th-century ex-monk with Superman's arch-nemesis...... are they one and the same? Hmm....
Heh, well, if all you've got on me is a spelling error..
Martin Luthor was Lex's great, great, great, great, great, great, etc. grandpa, also a reformer back in the day... arch nemesis of pope Kal-El III..
I've heard that the superman story is actually a christ allegory... it's fitting quite nicely now. | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/13/2008 2:38:46 AM | "Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever."
~Vladimir Lenin~
"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."
~Proverbs 22:6~ Outdoor2:OM....G.....Lenin was a Christian...or was it the other way 'round?
What's the problem with the quote? Lenin is supposed to have said something to that exact effect:
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/vladimir_lenin/
“Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever”
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vladimir_lenin.html
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Pretty much the same as what the jusuit Francis Xavier is alleged to have said:
"Give me a child for for his first seven years and I'll give you the man"
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/14/2008 12:38:10 AM |
So what's so funny??
Two quotes from two idealogical sources that couldn't be farther apart from each other...saying the exact same thing.
It's funny... ...but with an asterisk...
What's not funny is that war is once again becoming more and more cloaked in the robes of fundamentalist Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious crusades. | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/16/2008 9:53:54 PM | "No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." ~ George H.W. Bush
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." ~ John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
"The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished." ~ Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz, Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia
"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." ~ Pat Robertson, The 700 Club
"I would have made a good Pope." ~ Richard Nixon
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." ~ Emo Philips
“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.” ~ The Dalai Lama
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ~ Buddha
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. ~ Buddha | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/17/2008 3:00:03 PM | I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony
People who want to share their religious views with you, almost never want you to share yours with them.
Dave Barry | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 4/17/2008 4:39:50 PM |
G-d created Arrakis to test the faithful Paul Muad' Dib
I'm just going to quote "Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip", because it has the BEST quote I've ever seen on this subject:
Harriet Hayes (Christian): I don't even know what the sides are in the culture wars.
Matt Albie (Atheist): Well, your side hates my side because you think we think you're stupid and my side hates your side because we think you're stupid. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0882620/quotes | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 6/30/2008 1:02:05 AM | .
A few quotations grouped by theme, though the sources may differ significantly in time, place and belief system:
"O God, if I am doing good out of fear of Your hellfire, cast me into it. And if I am doing good out of desire for Your paradise, prohibit me from entering it. And if I am doing good for the sake of Your noble face, do not prohibit me from seeing You."
- Rabi'ah al-'Adawiya (the Sufi woman saint)
(Translated and paraphrased from the Fatawa of Imam 'Abd al-Halim Mahmud.)
"Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
- Albert Einstein
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say we are the ones that need help?"
- Mark Twain
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
- Jonathan Swift
"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."
- Demosthenes (c.383-322 BC)
"All your dreams are unreal, even the dream you call the waking state.
The only reality is the screen on which they appear.
When you identify with the screen and not the pictures, you will know what is real and what is unreal."
- Sri Poonjaji
"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."
- The Talmud
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self."
- Albert Einstein
"If one asks about the Tao and another answers him, neither of them knows it."
- Chuang Tzu
"Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue."
- Yuan Wu
"He who knows, speaks not; he who speaks, knows not."
- Lao-Tsu (Tao-Te-Ching)
"Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."
- Matthew 13:13 (Bible KJV)
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