Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Christopher HitchensTags: cats food dogs god religion atheism water affection pets shelter
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: religion irreligion
I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Were I to enter on that arena, I should only add an unit to the number of Bedlamites.
[Letter to Mathew Carey, 11 November 1816]
Tags: religion dogma religious-violence
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
Sam HarrisTags: christianity religion
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
Tags: evil religion heart good
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTags: friendship friends reading books god religion companionship
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
Diane SetterfieldFaith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanisław LemTags: religion faith irrationality
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
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