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- From: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:51:22 GMT
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- In article <1212@blue.cis.pitt.edu> mpc+@pitt.edu (Mike Contento) writes:
- >>From: georged@meaddata.com (George Dibos)
- >
- >>There is no surer sign of mental incapacity than someone who embraces
- >>wishful thinking as fact...
- >>Please take your masturbatory, evangelical crap to one of the groups
- >>created for the purpose.
- >
- > Hmmm, this IS alt.quotations is it not ? Those WERE quotations were they not?
- > Oh, I see, quotations about the devil are OK, but those about God are not?
- > Should Woody Allen quotes be taken to the movies newsgroup, the Steven Wright
- > quotes to the rec.humor newsgroup, the presidential quotes to the alt.politics
- > newsgroup?
- >
- I think quotes about God are just fine. Here are several:
- "I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a
- little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating
- trough human conciousness control events."
- -- William S. Buroughs, _Paris Review_, Fall 1965
-
- "I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it."
- -- Virginia Woolf
-
- "I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
- -- Nietzsche
-
- "God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable.
- They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority,
- soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters."
- -- H.L. Mencken
- In any case, *I* don't think Xtian proselytizers should leave.
- But be warned that the opposition is *at least* as well-armed in any "quote
- wars".
-
- >[mike contento] "He who proselytizes in the cause of unbelief is
- >[univ. of pgh.] basically a man in need of belief."
- >[mpc+@pitt.edu] - Eric Hoffer
- Um...you *might* want to go back and read "The True Believer" before
- you get *too* enthusiastic about quoting Hoffer.....
- Chuck
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