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“Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.”

Men Looks Religion Father Animal

Author:Max Jacob

“Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers”

Men Believe Religion Father White Heard Teaching Prisoner White Man

Book:My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo

Source: My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo

“The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.”

Christian Religion Father Sin Virtue Generations Succeed

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?”

“The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.”

Heart Children Littles Religion Father Sound Half Wonder Tree Sky Shadow Elders Our Father Trunks

Author:Lucy Larcom

“Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was at home, and couldn't care less. What you do with yourself, whether you are happy or unhappy- live or die- is strictly your business and the universe doesn't care. In fact you may be the universe and the only cause of all your troubles. But, at best, the most you can hope for is comradeship with comrades no more divine (or just as divine) as you are. So quit sniveling and face up to it- 'Thou art God!'”

Men May Littles Art Facts Home Care Faces Religion Dies Universe Father Causes Trouble Sky Divine Mercy Quitting Unhappy Appeals Comrade Little Man Comradeship

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.”

“Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.”

Men Form Religion Father Moral Paid Godliness Power Of God

Book:ELSIE DINSMORE Complete Collection – 28 Timeless Children Classics in One Premium Edition: Elsie Dinsmore, Elsie's Holidays at Roselands, Elsie's Girlhood, Elsie's Womanhood, Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds, Elsie's Motherhood, Christmas with Grandma Elsie…

Source: ELSIE DINSMORE Complete Collection – 28 Timeless Children Classics in One Premium Edition: Elsie Dinsmore, Elsie's Holidays at Roselands, Elsie's Girlhood, Elsie's Womanhood, Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds, Elsie's Motherhood, Christmas with Grandma Elsie…

“metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.”

Humans Enough God Mother Religion Father Easy Imagine Rocks Kings Metaphor Imagine That Human Experience Eagles

Book:Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

Source: Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

“The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.”

Has Beens Stills Christian Religion Father Too Much Blood Land Middle Cry Holy Flow Jew East Chosen Middle East Veins Inheritance Abraham Grasping Holy Land Patriarch

Book:We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

Source: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land

“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.”

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Author:Susan Jacoby

“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.”

Source: The American Spirit

“The worshiper is the father of the gods.”

Religion Father Dignity

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”

Source: Autobiographies