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“If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?”
Source: The Christian Religion: A Series of Articles from the North American Review
“If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong”
“If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes clasped in the mothers' arms. They were ordered to kill women, and to pierce, with the sword of war, the unborn child. 'Our heavenly Father' commanded the Hebrews to kill the men and women, the fathers, sons and brothers, but to preserve the girls alive. Why were not the maidens also killed? Why were they spared? Read the thirty-first chapter of Numbers, and you will find that the maidens were given to the soldiers and the priests. Is there, in all the history of war, a more infamous thing than this? Is it possible that God permitted the violets of modesty, that grow and shed their perfume in the maiden's heart, to be trampled beneath the brutal feet of lust? If this was the order of God, what, under the same circumstances, would have been the command of a devil? When, in this age of the world, a woman, a wife, a mother, reads this record, she should, with scorn and loathing, throw the book away. A general, who now should make such an order, giving over to massacre and rapine a conquered people, would be held in execration by the whole civilized world. Yet, if the bible be true, the supreme and infinite God was once a savage.”
Source: Some Mistakes of Moses
“If the bible comes and peddles phobia,
I'll burn such bible to ashes.
If the koran comes and peddles violence,
I'll tear up such koran to pieces.
If the vedas come and peddle superstition,
I'll crush such filth to pulp with my foot.
If the constitution comes and peddles war,
As concerned parent I'll grab their makers,
And spank out all their dormant good.
Even if some two-bit God comes,
And peddles division,
I'll divide him so many times,
Even to his apostles,
He'll bear no recognition.
And a little word of advise to those,
Priming their guns, swords and tridents.
When a volcano erupts,
Insects are supposed to run,
Not hide behind bows, arrows and bibles.
Brain is mightier than bullets,
Heart is mightier than the homunculus.
When a 3 pound brain falls on bigoted bugs,
There is no running, only burning to cinders.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.”
“If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.”
“If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.”
“If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one”
Source: The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election
“If the bible is correct and Noah saved one pair of each of the animals we have still on earth by taking them aboard his ark, I wonder what madness made him choose to save the mosquito. That was a great foolishness on his part. After all, what purpose do they serve? The birds eat them, I suppose, but there are other insects they might eat instead, that do not bite me before they are eaten.”
Source: From Whence The Rivers Run
“If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.”
“If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?”
“If the Bible is not making noticeable improvements in your life, then you're reading the back - there's nothing on it.”
“If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.”
Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity
“If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, "Let's pick the best out of all religions and blend it all into Pan-Deism - one world religion with one god made out of many."”
“If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ.”
“If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God”
“If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?”
“If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?”
“If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.”
“If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?”
Source: The Woman's Bible
“If the Bible wasn’t corrupted in a massive and conspiratorial fashion, Islam can’t be trusted. Correcting the Torah and Gospels, setting the record straight, returning to the true religion,
were central to Muhammad’s mission. If the scripture wasn’t garbled, Islam loses its justification. If the Bible wasn’t massively degraded—to the point that it would be unrecognizable—the cornerstone of Islam is a lie.
To believe that Team Islam was right, and the Hebrew prophets were wrong, one has to dismiss the fact that most of the Qur’an’s stories and characters were lifted from Jewish oral traditions in the Talmud.”
Source: PROPHET OF DOOM: ISLAM'S TERRORIST DOGMA IN MUHAMMAD'S OWN WORDS
“If the Bible were the most boring book in the world--dull, uninteresting and seemingly irrelevant--it would still be our duty to study it. If its literary style were awkward and confusing, the duty would remain. We live as human beings under an obligation by divine mandate to study diligently God's Word. He is our Sovereign, it is his Word, and he commands that we study it. A duty is not an option. If you have not yet begun to respond to that duty, then you need to ask God to forgive you and to resolve to do your duty from this day forth.”
“If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why, Klingenschmitt asked, on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?”
“If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?”
“If the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human begin will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower. It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust”
Source: Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
“If the biblical writers were writing today they might spell out some things more clearly, given how easily even Christians fall into thinking in ways alien and foreign to the biblical story of God and creation.”
“If the Big Bang theory is correct, then the whole universe was created at the same time, if this is correct then, God must have been made after,
If there is alien life far more advanced than us, and they visit us as millions of people believe they do, this leads me to believe that the human race must have destroyed itself many times over in history
All we have as evidence of our history is, upright stones with some writing on them, some ancient archaeologist sites, and some caves with drawings on the walls, that lend some interpretation to our history on earth”
“If the Big Bang Theory is true, then all the equations in Physics are wrong.”
“If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?”
Source: The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book
“If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.”
“If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.”
“If the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill.”
“If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.”
“If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”
Source: The Story of an African Farm
“If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.”
Source: Enchanted
“If the birds keep on making nests, if they know there’s gonna be a tomorrow, then I wanna stick around and see what they’re singing about. They’re who I’m gonna listen to. . .”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.”
“If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.”
“If the bishops had not called vain imaginings religion, philosophers would not regard religion as vain imaginings.”
“If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.”
“If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?”
“If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.”
“If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?”
“If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.”
Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster
“If the blind has a bit vision, will never seek for eyes.”
“If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.”
“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.”
“If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.”
“If the bodhisattvas live during a time of armed conflict,
they give rise to the mind of compassion,
transforming those who are fighting,
and causing them to dwell in a land without contention.
If there are great wars,
the bodhisattvas make the strength on both sides equal.
They manifest their spiritual authority
and subdue people so that peace is restored.”
Source: The Bodhisattva Path: Commentary on the Vimalakirti and Ugrapariprccha Sutras