Atheist Quote by Carl Reiner

“I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.” quote by Carl Reiner — Download Open image

“I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.”

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People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy…

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I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

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I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get…

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Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in…

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Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a…

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I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great…

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You can get the best out of people if they're happy and not worried or not frightened that they're going to make a mistake.

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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

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I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

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If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

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I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

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