Belief

"What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope."

"God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal"

"Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world"

"If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority."

"A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials."

"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."

"The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live"

"Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors."

"Apologetics=faith is weak, lets defend it"

"One man's faith is considered idolatry by another"

"Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's"

"There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom"

"Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?"

"Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other."

"Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be"

"Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity."

"Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul"

"Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in"

"Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie"

"Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds"