“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (via juliana marques)
Tag: Atheism
The Foolishness of God
“We desperately need the foolishness of God.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet (via Csaba Osvath)
God Gone Missing
“Imagine three days of God
gone missing. Now,
imagine my lifetime of it.”
— Airea D. Matthews, from “Sexton Texts a Backslider after Breaking Lent,” Simulacra
Gods and Men
“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
I Feel No Spiritual Void
“I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Asimov: A Memoir
Is It More Probable?
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.”
— Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (via philosophybits)
Then Whence Evil?
Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?”
— David Hume
Friedrich Nietzsche on God
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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