“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course! — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable - from table… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I’ve studied—from most human beings, really—is that the people who face the wall and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“My dear, religion is a null area in the law. A church can do anything any organization can do—and has no restrictions.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
