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I guess we’re supposed to have faith.”“ I never really took you for the faith-having kind, ” Quentin said.“ I didn’t either. But it’s worked out so far. We’ve got five of the seven keys. You can’t argue with results.”“ You can’t, ” Quentin said, “but that’s actually not the same thing as having faith.”“ Why do you always try to ruin everything?”“ I’m not ruining it. I just want to understand it.”“ If you had faith you wouldn’t have to understand.Lev Grossman
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Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for someBangambiki Habyarimana
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Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil menBangambiki Habyarimana
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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 strongholdsBangambiki Habyarimana
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Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me... “is a pious lieBangambiki Habyarimana
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Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe inBangambiki Habyarimana
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Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soulBangambiki Habyarimana
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Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to beBangambiki Habyarimana
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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.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?Bangambiki Habyarimana
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There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathomBangambiki Habyarimana
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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'sBangambiki Habyarimana
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One man's faith is considered idolatry by anotherBangambiki Habyarimana
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Apologetics=faith is weak, lets defend itBangambiki Habyarimana
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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.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we liveBangambiki Habyarimana
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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.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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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.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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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. .Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the worldBangambiki Habyarimana
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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 equalBangambiki Habyarimana
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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. .Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do soBangambiki Habyarimana
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No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costsBangambiki Habyarimana
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It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignoranceBangambiki Habyarimana
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All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yetBangambiki Habyarimana
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Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hopeBangambiki Habyarimana
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All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arroganceBangambiki Habyarimana
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The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the godsBangambiki Habyarimana
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Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the storyBangambiki Habyarimana
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It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories .Bangambiki Habyarimana
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There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinityBangambiki Habyarimana
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On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robotsBangambiki Habyarimana
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I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing our faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in chargeBangambiki Habyarimana
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Religion is pure hypnosisBangambiki Habyarimana
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All religions are guessworkBangambiki Habyarimana
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My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and mindsBangambiki Habyarimana
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Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for helpBangambiki Habyarimana
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God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in him, their hearts yearn for him.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him, " thunders the fanaticBangambiki Habyarimana
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You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hellBangambiki Habyarimana
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Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinctionBangambiki Habyarimana
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From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )Bangambiki Habyarimana
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An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despairBangambiki Habyarimana
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I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanityBangambiki Habyarimana
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â€â€¹Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.Abhijit Naskar
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If there is a God you must see it (literally), even clearer than you see this page, otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist, than a hypocrite.Abhijit Naskar
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To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicideBangambiki Habyarimana
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Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hellBangambiki Habyarimana
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Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!Bangambiki Habyarimana
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It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurelyBangambiki Habyarimana
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FAITH is not the LAST OPTION left, It is the FIRST REASON to STAND FIRM in what we BELIEVEDJulie Jenifer
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Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosityBangambiki Habyarimana
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Gods can only keep their promises in booksBangambiki Habyarimana
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Even if god was proved beyond doubt that he did not exist. We would still believe in him. We don't need hard facts, we need true emotions.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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At the end of faith there is always some calamityBangambiki Habyarimana
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Many people don't know they have stopped believing in god. Their neighbors doBangambiki Habyarimana
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Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazyBangambiki Habyarimana
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We are gods but we are afraid of the ensuing responsibility; that's why we prefer to remain slaves. Only if we dared to rise up to the challenge and assume our divinity, we could perform most of the miracles we pray for.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Billions of years before I was born I did not need religion, why should I need it, billions of years after I cease to existBangambiki Habyarimana
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God does not take sides. He is always on the side of the winnerBangambiki Habyarimana
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I am not afraid of what god can do to me. He is already doing itBangambiki Habyarimana
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Don't be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one I loveBangambiki Habyarimana
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Life is stripped of its flavor when folks are told that hell is waiting for themBangambiki Habyarimana
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False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet knownBangambiki Habyarimana
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God is what you imagine him to beBangambiki Habyarimana
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I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence meansBangambiki Habyarimana
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Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on themBangambiki Habyarimana