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"God made my body and if it is dirty, then the imperfection lies with the Manufacturer, not the product."

~Lenny Bruce

"I still hold... that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth."

"The Coloured Lands"

~G.K. Chesterson

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."

~Georges Duhamel

"Nature's imagination is richer than ours."

~Freeman Dyson

"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."

~Albert Einstein
physicist (1879—1955)

"God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things."

~Harry Emerson Fosdick
clergyman (1878—1969)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

~Mahatma Gandhi
(1869—1848)

"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet, novelist, playwright, courtier, & natural philosopher (1749—1832)

"Friends... are God's apology for relations."

~Hugh Kingsmill

"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot even make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens."

~Michel de Montaigne
(1533—1592)

"Delusions on a small scale are psychosis, delusions on a grand scale are religion"

13 March 2000

~Lauren's Anthropology Professor

"The lord works in mysterious ways... so does the devil."

~Alicia Romano

"The fates lead him who will — him who won't they drag."

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(ca. 4 BCE—65 CE)

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

~George Bernard Shaw

"The living are to the gods as women are to men."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society"

"To be transformed into a divinity is to forget."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society" ch.7 sect.4

~Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

"Now, this is no time for making enemies."

on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

~François-Marie Arouet aka Voltaire
author & philosopher (1694—1778)

"It was as if they surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance so they could live unselfishly and trustingly — except that they had surrendered to a pimp."

~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
novelist

"There is no devil, only god when he's drunk."

~Tom Waits
musician

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion."

~Steven Weinberg
physicist

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

Lord Darlington, "Lady Windermere's Fan"

"Every saint has a past and every sinner a future."

~Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
poet, novelist, & playwright (1854—1900)

"I had to be first in everything because in my perverse heart I felt myself the least of god's creatures."

regarding alcoholism

~Bill Wilson

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