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"All things are full of gods." - Thales
"But this is my creation!"
"It outgrew you." ~God & the Saint of Killers
"And is he going to attack the kingdom of heaven?" ogunwe looked at her levelly. "we're not going to invade the kingdom," he said, "but if the kingdom invades us, they had better be ready for war, because we are prepared. the kingdom of heaven has been known by that name since the Authority first set himself above the rest of the angels. and we want no part of it. this world is different. we intend to be free citizens of the republic of heaven."
"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." -Robert A. Heinlein
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." -Stephen King
"I hope I never get so old I get religious." -Ingmar Bergman
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes." -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! -Nietzsche
“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers! Hell is- other people!” ~Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
Of course they called on God: but he went his way
Down among the Lost People like Dante, down
To the stinking fosse where the injured
Lead the ugly life of the rejected,
And showed us what evil is; not as we thought
Deeds that must be punished, but our lack of faith,
Our dishonest mood of denial,
The concupiscence of the opressor.
~W.H.Auden, In memory of Sigmund Freud, 1939
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. Karl Krause
God: a disease we imagine we have cured because no one dies of it nowadays. - E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. ~Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. -Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 529
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. ~Albert Einstein
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. ~Thomas Jefferson
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. ~Charles Bukowski
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. -Woody Allen
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. -Thomas Paine
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. ~Thomas Paine
"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness."
"Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.
He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods. --Egyptian Book of the Dead
They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. --Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
When I think of number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be bad at all. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Impiety: n. Your irreverence toward my diety. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
We are all as God made us and frequently much worse. -Cervantes
From nonexistence I entered existence and what did I find? Bad weather. -William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence
God is DEAD, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there! -Trent Reznor
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? -Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural,Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity, Divinity, Theology, Monotheism, Missionary, Immaculate Conception, Christmas, Christianity, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Catholic, Pope, Cardinal, Catechism, Purgatory, Penance, Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Dogma, Chastity, Unpardonable Sin, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Incarnation, Epiphany, Sermon, Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer, Good Friday, Doubting Thomas, Advent, Sunday School, Dead Sea, Golden Rule, Moral, Morality, Ethics, Patriotism, Education, Atheism, Apostasy, Conservative (Liberal is in), Capital Punishment, Monogamy, Abortion, Pornography, Homosexual, Lesbian, Fairness, Logic, Republic, Democracy, Capitalism, Funeral, Decalogue, or Bible. ~ Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
Dear God. We paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing. -Bart Simpson saying grace
Those who climb soap boxes to preach "tolerance" of all "lifestyles" are typically the most intolerant of all. It is easy enough to prove: simply tell such preachers of intolerance that you have an opposite opinion.
I thank whatever Gods may be for my unconquerable soul. -William Ernest Henley
Per me si va nella citta dolente,
Per me si va nell'eterno dolore,
Per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate!
(This way for the sorowful city,
This way for eternal suffering,
This way to join the lost people.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!)
~Dante Alighieri, Inferno
If something good happens, he (God) is love. If something bad happens, he moves in mysterious ways. -The End of Days
Imagine the ego of mankind, to deem themselves so grand as to warrant a creator worthy of praise. -Robert Brunswick Jr.
A man can die but once; we owe God a death -William Shakespeare, Henry IV - Part II
You say that I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But you say that Dreams have no power here? Tell me... what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven? -Morpheus, Sandman
The power of the dream, the faith in things unseen. The courage to embrace your fear. No matter where you are, to reach for your own star... to realize the power of the dream. -Linda Thompson
A SERMON ON ETHICS AND LOVE
One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint Gulik to approach the Goddess and request Her presence for some desperate advice. Shortly afterwards the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female Voice said YES?
"O! Eris! Blessed Mother of Man! Queen of Chaos! Daughter of Discord! Concubine of Confusion! O! Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy burden from my heart!"
WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL? YOU DON'T SOUND WELL.
"I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe."
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?
"But nobody Wants it! Everybody hates it."
OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
At which moment She turned herself into an aspirin commercial and left The Polyfather stranded alone with his species.
SINISTER DEXTER HAS A BROKEN SPIROMETER.
End (The Principia Discordia)
The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly--except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead. -Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
How little Christianity educates the sense of honesty and justice can be seen pretty well from the writings of its scholars: they advance their conjectures as blandly as dogmas and are hardly ever honestly perplexed by the exegesis of a Biblical verse. Again and again they say, "I am right for it is written," and the interpretation that follows is of such impudent arbitrariness that a philologist is stopped in his tracks, torn between anger and laughter, and keeps asking himself: Is it possible? Is this honest? Is it even decent? -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." --Joseph Conrad
"The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it -- because it is a fact." --G. K. Chesterton
"If life is a role-playing game, I have a bone to pick with the Game Master." -Scott "Jesus" Watson
The fact that [someone is] an unattractive character with followers holding rather odd theology, does not mean that they have no civil, legal or constitutional rights. Calling such a group a "cult" should not deprive them of their rights. -Alex McColl, 1993 On the Branch Davidian ATF raid, in Soldier of Fortune
Not many people know that I'm God. -Heather Smale
There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate. -Stephen King
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?" Then a voice answers, "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up." -Charles Schulz, Charlie Brown
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. ~Robert Runcie
Proverbs of Hell
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
"Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity."
"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"The cut worm forgives the plough."
"Dip him in the river who loves water"
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough"
"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."
"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
"The busy bee has no time for sorrow."
"The most sublime act is to set another before you."
"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."
"Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of Religion."
"Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps."
"Expect poison from the standing water."
"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd."
"Enough! or Too much."
(selected)
~William Blake (1757-1827)
"That assumes God plays by the *rules* of logic, which he might not. Because, *by definition*, he *doesn't* have to play by your rules of logic. He can set up rules for this universe and do as he pleases without regard for them." -Henry Cotter
"So He can make a rock so big He can't lift it? Pretty cool. If God truly can transcend logic, that explains how he can be omni-benevolent while still forcing us to live in a universe with typhiod fever, leeches, and infomercials." -Arbane the Terrible
"The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything’s fine." ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
I'm an Angel. I kill newborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. And occasionally, when I feel like it, I tear little girls apart. And from now till kingdom come... the only thing you can count on... in your existence... is never understanding why." ~Gabriel, The Prophecy
Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel? ~Gabriel, The Prophecy
"All things are full of gods." - Thales
"But this is my creation!"
"It outgrew you."
~God & the Saint of Killers
"and is he going to attack the kingdom of heaven?" ogunwe looked at her levelly. "we're not going to invade the kingdom," he said, "but if the kingdom invades us, they had better be ready for war, because we are prepared. the kingdom of heaven has been known by that name since the Authority first set himself above the rest of the angels. and we want no part of it. this world is different. we intend to be free citizens of the republic of heaven."
"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." -Robert A. Heinlein
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." -Stephen King
"I hope I never get so old I get religious." -Ingmar Bergman
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes." -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
--Of course they called on God: but he went his way
Down among the Lost People like Dante, down
To the stinking fosse where the injured
Lead the ugly life of the rejected,
And showed us what evil is; not as we thought
Deeds that must be punished, but our lack of faith,
Our dishonest mood of denial,
The concupiscence of the opressor.
~W.H.Auden, In memory of Sigmund Freud, 1939
God: a disease we imagine we have cured because no one dies of it nowadays. - E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. ~Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. ~Albert Einstein
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. ~Thomas Jefferson
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. ~Charles Bukowski
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. -Woody Allen Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. - George Bernard Shaw
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. -Thomas Paine
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.~Thomas Paine
"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness."
"Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.
He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods. --Egyptian Book of the Dead
They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. --Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
When I think of number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be bad at all. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Impiety: n. Your irreverence toward my diety. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
We are all as God made us and frequently much worse. –Cervantes
Per me si va nella citta dolente,
Per me si va nell'eterno dolore,
Per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate!
(This way for the sorowful city,
This way for eternal suffering,
This way to join the lost people.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!)
~Dante Alighieri, Inferno
How little Christianity educates the sense of honesty and justice can be seen pretty well from the writings of its scholars: they advance their conjectures as blandly as dogmas and are hardly ever honestly perplexed by the exegesis of a Biblical verse. Again and again they say, "I am right for it is written," and the interpretation that follows is of such impudent arbitrariness that a philologist is stopped in his tracks, torn between anger and laughter, and keeps asking himself: Is it possible? Is this honest? Is it even decent? -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn
"The night is too dark, to walk with your eyes closed." --Peter Sintic
Our fathers were our models for God. If they bailed, what does that tell you about God? You have to be prepared for the possibility that God does not like you. -Tyler Durden: Fight Club
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