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• The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

  Daniel Dennett

  Gratitude, Blessing, Ideas

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• The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Laughing, World

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• Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christianity

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• Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

  John Updike

  Debt, Might, Sacred

  John Updike (1980). “People One Knows: Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans”

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• Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Discovery, Diversity

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• In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  School, Sight, Scripture

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.481, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

  Carl Sagan

  Suicide, Atheist, Men

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• All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Trying, Finals

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sleep, Men, Imagination

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.23, Vintage

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• Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Feet, Play, Parent

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Catholic, Evolution, Proposal

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• Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position-eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.

  Galileo Galilei

  Running, Moving, Science

  Galileo Galilei (1967). “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

  Godfried Danneels

  Rome, Done, Problem

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• Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.

  Dervla Murphy

  Heaven, Library, Unions

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• Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Analogies, Metaphysical

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• At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

  Israel Shenker

  Squares, Two, Catholic

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.

  Mary McCarthy

  Space, Hydrogen Bomb, People

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

  Thomas Szasz

  Devil, Aggression, Seeing

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.172, Syracuse University Press

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• For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian.

  Robert M. Price

  Doctrine, Answers, Mystery

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• What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome, is the latter's fullness of knowledge of God's Word. To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.

  Gordon Clark

  Echoes, Rome, Age

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• The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

  Charles Fort

  Cells, Imitation, Ideals

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.49, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Champion

  Baltimore Evening Sun, April 4, 1927.

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• Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

  Max Planck

  Jesus, Teaching, All Time

  "The Dilemmas of an Upright Man : Max Planck As Spokesman for German Science". Book by John L. Heilbron, p. 67, 1986.

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• Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

  Henry Adams

  Saint, Assuming, Century

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.58, Penguin

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• It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.

  Criss Jami

  Strong, Teaching, Taken

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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