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Quotes by August Berkshire
Quotes by August Berkshire
“According to Christian theology, God sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself.”
“I believe atheists have already won the intellectual war against religion. We haven’t won the emotional war or the political war, but we have won the intellectual war.”
From the essay, “The Problem of Evil: The Top 13 Excuse Religious People Give for the Horrible Behavior of Their God” –
- “If you had the knowledge and power of a god, would you have created birth defects, disease, and natural disasters? If not, then you are nicer than the god you believe in. This god should be praying to you for moral advice, rather than the other way around.
- “Would you take a syringe full of malaria and inject it into someone you love? Yet that’s exactly what God does to people he claims to love, using a mosquito as a syringe.
- “We humans spend a lot of time mopping up after God’s mistakes. Some say that God works through us. But the reason we have to do ‘the Lord’s work’ is because ‘the Lord’ isn’t doing it himself. And if we’re doing the work, shouldn’t we take the credit?”
