jesus
Becoming God
"Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God." - Eric Butterworth
"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence [...]
Cannibals
"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3, pub. 1851
"What characterizes the Cannibals is that most of them are born Christians, think of Jesus as Love, and get an erection from the thought of whippings, blood, burning crosses, burning bodies, and screams in [...]
Cross
"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses." - Lenny Bruce
"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood." - George Carlin
"The [...]
Disciples
"Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble." - W. Russell Maltby
"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me." - John Lennon
Jesus
"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"If Christ should appear on earth he would on all hands be denounced as a mistaken, misguided man, [...]
Jesus is Everywhere
"I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment." - Mother Teresa
"Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified." - Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, pub. 1919
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Name
"The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused." - John E. Remsburg, The Christ, 1910
"Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history [...]
Paradox
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." - Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof… and [...]
Scapegoat
"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on." - Noam Chomsky
"In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are [...]
Systems
"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized." - Louis Aragon, 1897-1982
"That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up." - Thomas Paine
"I [...]
