“"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.” LittlesSaidIdeasBeliefNationsRaceStepsAtheismOughtAncientPositive AtheismAshamedEasterHebrewBonnetsPolytheism Book:The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel Source: The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel
“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.” WorldLongIdeasLawOrderHouseGivenLossRoomsMankindCreaturesSupremeAbsurdCynicalSupreme Being Author:Peter De Vries
“What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.” PeopleIdeasSeemsChanceComfortProveDespairBlindHorribleMessMeaninglessProve To Me Author:Peter De Vries
