“Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest) in the public worship of God, as it now is (with the claim that it is the Christianity of the New Testament), thou hast constantly one guilt the less, and that a great one: thou dost not take part in treating God as a fool by calling that the Christianity of the New Testament which is not the Christianity of the New Testament.” IfsMayArtChristianityFoolCallingWorshipMy FriendsClaimsGuiltTestamentNew TestamentGreat Ones Book:Attack Upon 'Christendom' Source: Attack Upon 'Christendom'
“I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.” WorldBelieveReasonDesireChristSinWiseAtheismFoolCallingWeakEternitySakePositive AtheismNobleFoolishGods WillChosenCompanionSheepJustificationImposingJerryMarieTammy Author:Ruth Hurmence Green
“It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.” MenWayGivenAttentionFoolCalling Author:Roger L'Estrange
“When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.” RecordsFoolCallingBandCrackers Author:Levon Helm
“The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.” IfsChildrenPersonsHandsNamesProcessParentNumbersSituationTeachingFoolCallingEssentialsCapacitySacredPrisonCrueltyEmployeeConsiderationCover Ups Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.” CommonGoneImpossibleFoolCallingEvidenceGravesCommon SenseLiarsPhysiciansExaminingPasteur Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie” MayFatherFoolCallingBeing TrueTeenageBrianJamieDisrespectful Author:Diana Gabaldon