Showing posts with label Robert Heinlein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Heinlein. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2009

One Man's View of Religion

Quotes of Robert Heinlein:
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent -- it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills. [Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, 1973]

Men rarely if ever manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. [Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, 1973]

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. [Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, 1973]

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. [Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love, 1973]

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove. [If This Goes On, 1940]
[h/t Gil Ross]