[net.religion] quote

tiberio (03/23/83)

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists.
That is why they invented hell.
					-Bertrand Russell

tiberio (03/24/83)

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost
perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are
too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty--I call it the
one immortal blemish of mankind.
						-Fredrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

carey (03/24/83)

I call Fredrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) the one great curse, the one enormous
and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no
means are too venemous, too underhanded, too underground and too petty --
I call him the one immortal blemish of mankind.
                                                -Marie Carey (1960-    )

tiberio (03/24/83)

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
					-George Bernard Shaw

tiberio (04/04/83)

The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god,
and its village police and sanitary regulations are erected into eternal laws.
						-John (Albert) Macy

dje (04/07/83)

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion.
By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
			-- Philip Francis

crm@duke.UUCP (10/07/83)

Re: Pamela Troy, Samuelson, Watt (too bad his last name hasn't an 's')
and all, a quote which may be relevant:

"Freedom of religion is inversly proportional to the strength of the
 most powerful religion."

Lazarus Long (aka Heinlein.)

By the way, LOCUS (the SF version of Publisher's Weekly) says that
Heinlein's new novel is a satire on religion, at least part of
which takes place in heaven.

Charlie Martin