“Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.” ShowsReligionUniverseLostChurchNotionRidiculousCreedsDeitiesMistSpontaneity Book:Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins
“If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.” IfsBelieveIdeasGodChristianReligionLostSpeakGuiltPunishmentPityTyrantsFearfulVengeanceDeitiesSincerely Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics
“It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.” KnowsWayTryingHas BeensReligionSpiritualityUnderstandingBornReligiousAbilityPleaseExpectationsTraditionPerformancesMythologyPrimariesDeitiesFrameworkRelationship With GodImpedimentsReligious TraditionsAppeasement Author:William P. Young
“While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally to be expected from them in return, that they will [demonstrate] the innocence of their lives and the beneficence of their actions; for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society.” MenActionChristianReligionCommunityReligiousMoralReturnMembersConscienceCreditExpectedInnocenceTerritoryProtectedDeitiesBeneficence Author:George Washington
“It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.” ThinkingIdeasHardLightAgeSpiritualYoungReligionFatherProcessWomenVoiceWaterAnswersTelevisionIntellectualConversionYoung AgeDeitiesBishopsPouringCatechismBlinding Light Author:Susan Jacoby
“Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.” Has BeensMadeReligionHumanityBeautyHellUglyDeitiesOutrage Author:Victor Hugo
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” GodAbleSpiritualScienceReligionEvilReligiousAtheismWillingAtheistParadoxSkepticismSecularAgnosticDeitiesSkepticalThere Is No GodAgnosticismParadoxicalGod ExistsOmnipotentOmnipotenceIf There Is A GodReligion GodAncient GreekFounding Fathers Anti ReligionTheistFounding Fathers AtheistAnti ReligiousThere Being No GodGod Is AbleNon BelieverMalevolenceReligion In SocietyGod Is Not GreatAnti GodEpicureanismProof That God ExistsSubtle AtheistProof God ExistsProblem Of EvilEpicureanChristian WorldviewEvil GodCriticism Of Religion Author:Epicurus
“When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.” ReligionLipsMysteriousSundayPermitCashDeitiesOrganized ReligionWednesdayLip ServiceAbsolution Author:Frank Sinatra