“I don`t understand a belief that there is an invisible being in the sky who watches over us all the time and keeps score and who throws you in a burning pit. I think that's very limiting, very antihuman. It's the way they devised for helping to control people because if they can make you believe in an invisible man who's going to hurt you later, they can make you believe anything!” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWayBelieveHelpingBeliefHurtWatchesSkyInvisibleBurningScorePits Author:George Carlin
“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.” MaySometimesStatesWholeBeliefPleasureExistenceRegardRewardsSensesPunishmentInvisibleTheologyTendenciesSecurePermanentGratificationCalamityForbearanceImmediate Gratification Book:Works: ¬The Rambler Source: Works: ¬The Rambler