#lie

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ↗

— Stephen Roberts

#belief #deism #religion #scepticism #religion

No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way. ↗

— S.J. Parris

#religion #religion

God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#christianity #god #hell #religion #religion

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#believing-in-god #god #religion #religion

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present. ↗

— Daniel L. Pals

#gods #religion #religion

I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#believing #judgmental #religion #right #wrong

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#religion

Ich folge der Liebe, Wohin auch ihre Karawane zieht, Liebe ist meine Religion, Liebe ist mein Glaube. ↗

— Ibn Arabi

#liebe #religion #religion

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing. ↗

— Eric Weiner

#god #religion #religion

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#belief #myths #superstition #weakness #nature