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Religion Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

43 Religion quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

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Heinlein says religion often serves as a crutch for people who aren’t strong enough to face the unknown. He notes that no religion has ever been shown to have a rational basis in history. He also points out that when a sect gains political power it tries to turn its creed into law.

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Faith is intellectual laziness.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

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Most gods have the morals of a spoiled child.

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“Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times”

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I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to…

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“Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.”

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“History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of”

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Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

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Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

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“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

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The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

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Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to…

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An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the…

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“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing…

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But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take…

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Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it…

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God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and…

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“All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to…

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Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which…

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“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political…

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There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine…

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History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not…

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“The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable - from table…

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The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were…

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God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of…

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The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,…

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A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for…

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He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the…

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Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was…

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The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty…

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“My dear, religion is a null area in the law. A church can do anything any organization can do—and has no restrictions.…

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“The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.”

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Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

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History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

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“As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...”

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The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

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The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that…

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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

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“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

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“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

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“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”

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Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein”

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Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

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