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On Religion

“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”

~ Terry Pratchett ~

If you care about what other people think;

you will always be their prisoner.

~Lao Tzu~

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel.

He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

~ Mark Twain ~

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions

are in almost every case gotten at second-hand,and without examination,

from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue

but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners,

whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

~ Mark Twain ~

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism,

in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;

we are disavowing the very realm where we exist

and where all things precious are kept

-- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

~ John Updike ~

I was greatly interested in the incident of Eve and the serpent,

and thought Eve's calmness was perfectly noble.

I asked Mr. B. if he had ever heard of another woman who,

being approached by a serpent would not excuse herself

and break for the nearest timber.

~ Mark Twain ~

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had.

Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher,

but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned.

It looked like a safe job.

~ Mark Twain ~.

"There are people who believe that humans and dinosaurs co-existed,

that they roamed the Earth at the same time.

There are museums that children go to,

in which they build dioramas to show them this.

And what this is, purely and simply, is a clinical psychotic reaction.

They are crazy. They are stone-cold-f*ck nuts.

I can't be kind about this, because these people

are watching The Flinstones as if it were a documentary."

~ Lewis Black ~

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard

who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous.

But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe,

then clearly there is such a God.

This God is emotionally unsatisfying...

it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

~ Carl Sagan ~

Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance

for the evil conscience of their parents.

~ H.L. Mencken ~

"How we behave toward cats here below

determines our status in heaven."

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts

to get our country back on track.

~ Lewis Black ~

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being;

it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Frances Wright

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....

~Mark Twain~