#eol

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#general #human #ingenuity #me #seems

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#children #christian #christian faith #faith #grateful

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#charged #emotionally #ever #fulfill #hatred

We did not seek ideological confrontation. ↗

— John Hume

#did #ideological #seek

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#based #christ #clear #ii #jesus

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#because #becoming #central #climate #convinced

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bones #dead #habit #living #old

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#anguish #bring #ideologies #separate #together

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#considered #does #everyday #everyday life #ideology