The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those p...
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Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
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I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infini...
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Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition wh...
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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His brea...
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People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her ce...
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As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...
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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always purit...
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The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
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Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
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History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of
