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What kind of
God
is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
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My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what
gods
they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in
gods
, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like
God
in my life.
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to
gods
or to men.
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I've been worrying about
God
a little bit lately. It seems as if he's been lashing out, you know, destroying cities, annihilating places. It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting. If you look at the people who love
God
now, you know, if I was
God
, I'd need to destroy something.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in
God
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I used to say: 'there is a
God
-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven... To set your words against the Words of
God
.
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The point is always reached after which the
gods
no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of
god
offers in the world of faith.
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From the beginning men used
God
to justify the unjustifiable.
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God
, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. … and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. … From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.
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When we stop believing in the
gods
we can start believing in their stories.
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Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not
gods
but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Born:
June 19, 1947
(age 77)
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