Everything Glorious
The day is brighter here with You
the night is lighter than it's hue
would lead me to believe
which leads me to believe that
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
and I am Yours
what does that make me?
My eyes are small but they have seen
the beauty of enormous things
which leads me to believe
there's light enough to see that
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
and I am Yours
what does that make me?
From glory to glory
You are glorious, You are glorious
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"Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete." Colossians 3:10 MSG
"Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life--even though invisible to spectators--is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you'll show up, too--the real you, the glorious you." Colossians 3:3-4
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the night is lighter than it's hue
would lead me to believe
which leads me to believe that
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
and I am Yours
what does that make me?
My eyes are small but they have seen
the beauty of enormous things
which leads me to believe
there's light enough to see that
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
You make everything glorious
and I am Yours
what does that make me?
From glory to glory
You are glorious, You are glorious
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"Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete." Colossians 3:10 MSG
"Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life--even though invisible to spectators--is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you'll show up, too--the real you, the glorious you." Colossians 3:3-4
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As Christians, it seems like we emphasize our sinfulness more than God's gracefulness. That always seemed a bit off to me. We concentrate so heavily on our sinfulness, our dirtiness, our unworthiness. And it's true--we're pretty screwed up, and without God's boundless grace, we'd be goners. No denial there. But for some reason, it always seemed crazy to me that we look at ourselves and see our sin. I cringe when they teach us that we're sinful at the very core of our beings. I've got Jesus in my heart! I asked Him to be there! If God's truly redeemed us, if we've truly cast off ourselves and put on Jesus--if God sees His Son when He looks at us instead of our dirt--then why do we insist on reminding ourselves of our sin? That's always puzzled me.
Then I heard this song, "Everything Glorious," today. (It's a new Crowder song if you were interested. I sound like a broken record, I know, but these guys really do it for me. iTunes it under "Passion: Everything Glorious" It's worth way more than the 99 cents you'll pay for it). It spoke volumes to me--put words to my gut instinct that we're missing something about grace. Did you catch that?? "You make everything glorious. I am Yours. What does that make me?"
Glorious.
Go ahead, check your thesaurus. It'd be under "G." I'll be here when you get back.
Magnificent. Wonderful. Splended, famous, superb. Celebrated. Not on our own account, but because that's what Christ made us to be. We threw off our old selves. We're glorious in Christ. Not "will be." Not "someday." Now.
"But Katie," you're quick to interject. "What about that verse in Romans that we all know by memory? Romans 3:23. The 'for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God' one?"
That really seems to sum up our identity as Christians doesn't it? That one's right up there with John 3:16. You've got it memorized, I've got it memorized, and so do 95% of the world's Christians. Preach a sermon on that baby and you're guaranteed hearty amens and a pat on the back or two.
Don't worry, I didn't forget about that verse. But if that's our unspoken identity, we're wrong. What I didn't realize, until today, is that the verse doesn't end there. Go ahead, grab your Bible. I'll wait. Check it out. Nope. No period. Romans 3:23: "...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus" (NIV) (emphasis mine).
Ooooh baby, check out that comma! (Don't you just love punctuation? We've got a whole doctrine based on it, what with that "I tell you the truth: today you will be with me..."/"I tell you the truth today: you will be with me" stuff). Aren't you thankful for that little dude? "And are justified freely by his grace..." It really sucks that we've all got the first part of that verse memorized, but I for one didn't even know that second half existed. Kinda feels like the author was saying, "Yeah yeah yeah, we're all sinful, but lets hurry up and get to grace--that's the important part."
He is glorious. But when I asked Christ to come live in me, to be my very best, ever-present friend, I took on His glory. I'm not worthless anymore! I'm not a no-good sinner. I'm made in the glory of my Jesus. He makes everything glorious. Not just the star-flung universe. Not just the smell of the dirt and the life in the air after a spring rain. Feel that word, glorious, in your soul. Is it the feel of the wind in your hair? Is it soaring music? Is it the sun on your face?
It is also you. It is redemption finding rest in your soul. It is rescue. It is the fact that your identity, your real you, is exactly who God made you to be. God makes everything glorious. You are His.
That makes you glorious.
WOW.
Then I heard this song, "Everything Glorious," today. (It's a new Crowder song if you were interested. I sound like a broken record, I know, but these guys really do it for me. iTunes it under "Passion: Everything Glorious" It's worth way more than the 99 cents you'll pay for it). It spoke volumes to me--put words to my gut instinct that we're missing something about grace. Did you catch that?? "You make everything glorious. I am Yours. What does that make me?"
Glorious.
Go ahead, check your thesaurus. It'd be under "G." I'll be here when you get back.
Magnificent. Wonderful. Splended, famous, superb. Celebrated. Not on our own account, but because that's what Christ made us to be. We threw off our old selves. We're glorious in Christ. Not "will be." Not "someday." Now.
"But Katie," you're quick to interject. "What about that verse in Romans that we all know by memory? Romans 3:23. The 'for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God' one?"
That really seems to sum up our identity as Christians doesn't it? That one's right up there with John 3:16. You've got it memorized, I've got it memorized, and so do 95% of the world's Christians. Preach a sermon on that baby and you're guaranteed hearty amens and a pat on the back or two.
Don't worry, I didn't forget about that verse. But if that's our unspoken identity, we're wrong. What I didn't realize, until today, is that the verse doesn't end there. Go ahead, grab your Bible. I'll wait. Check it out. Nope. No period. Romans 3:23: "...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus" (NIV) (emphasis mine).
Ooooh baby, check out that comma! (Don't you just love punctuation? We've got a whole doctrine based on it, what with that "I tell you the truth: today you will be with me..."/"I tell you the truth today: you will be with me" stuff). Aren't you thankful for that little dude? "And are justified freely by his grace..." It really sucks that we've all got the first part of that verse memorized, but I for one didn't even know that second half existed. Kinda feels like the author was saying, "Yeah yeah yeah, we're all sinful, but lets hurry up and get to grace--that's the important part."
He is glorious. But when I asked Christ to come live in me, to be my very best, ever-present friend, I took on His glory. I'm not worthless anymore! I'm not a no-good sinner. I'm made in the glory of my Jesus. He makes everything glorious. Not just the star-flung universe. Not just the smell of the dirt and the life in the air after a spring rain. Feel that word, glorious, in your soul. Is it the feel of the wind in your hair? Is it soaring music? Is it the sun on your face?
It is also you. It is redemption finding rest in your soul. It is rescue. It is the fact that your identity, your real you, is exactly who God made you to be. God makes everything glorious. You are His.
That makes you glorious.
WOW.
9 comments:
my dear KC, that was profound. You could almost turn that into a GMU. That is an interesting way to look at it. I like it and appreciated it. Anyway have a great afternoon. Best wishes on your Fitt's exam. See you later.
oh my dearest kt,
Very, VERY thoughtful and deep. (Profound is a good word to use) You always find the perfect things to write about. :))
all my love! xoxoxo
wow....i dont think i even have words. i love your entries like this. they make you think, but in a good way. you should write your own book...it would be excellent! by the way, check your email...i have some exciting news!!! love you!!!!
Hey Miss Gina,
Thanks for saying that, because sometimes I feel like when I get all "Jesus Freak" like that, people don't read it, since those kind of posts don't get a lot of comments. But they're my favorite ones to write. So I'm glad you like them too. :) I'll go check e-mail now. :)
Thank u soo much babes!!! I got your email. She told me that she talked with the staff and they'ed be thrilled to have me! :)) You're amazing u know that?!?! Been thinkin boutcha all day! I have been debating on how badly i want to be at teen camp as well.. I really want to ride and patch some things up from last year that i feel i have yet to do... I really want to be there but going back and forth to camp can be exhausting as well!
all my love
i completely agree with my dearest Gina who WILL be calling me tonight to tell me the news as well!!! can't wait to hear it dear!
Going to get Narnia tomorrow!
Wow, that is cool. I wish I had the time to write a good sermon! But no, I don't even have the time to write a good song anymore...
So I think that is three or four votes above and beyond mine that say you need to write a devotional book. I usually get frustrated with them in about a week and give up, yours I would read. On a proud side note I have a little one on my desk at work that I have read almost every day at work. It's very good. But has ecclectic mixture of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and all kinds of others, really makes you stop and think. It's called Everyday Serenity look for it in bargain books section :) Worth every penny. But you still need to write yours too.
Hi Katie.
Stumbled across your blog and thought you might be interested in my two cents.
You might not agree with much of it, but hopefully it will make you think...
Good God?
Is there a God?
I say “no”.
But just say there is a god, and that god just happens to be the one described in the Christian Bible, then let’s take a look at how He conducts Himself and ask ourselves this irreverent question: Does He deserve our praise?
And my answer to this, if I am to believe the Bible accurately describes His character, is a resounding “no”.
Why? Well, primarily, He’s a bully.
Picture the scene… in a school playground, a big boy tells a small boy that if he does not hand over his packed lunch he’ll get a punch in the face.
Who would disagree that the big boy is a bully? Hopefully, no one.
Now picture another scene… on planet Earth, God tells Mankind that if he does not love Him then he will suffer eternal torment.
Is there any difference?
Not that I can see.
Perhaps there is just one though — the school bully is actually more compassionate than God as the punishment he threatens is a one-off punch from which the small boy will recover.
In contrast, God threatens an endless barrage of blows.
I despise bullies and the Bible clearly describes God as such.
I, for one, would not worship such a tyrant.
But Christians say that He loves us and wants us all to be saved.
He loves us so much, apparently, that He sent His only son to save us.
There are a few fundamental problems with this assertion, however.
Firstly, if He wants us all saved, then why does/did He not do it?
This could have been done in many ways:
God could have made us incapable of sinning.
But Christians claim this would have negated our ‘free will’ to choose Him and that God does not want robots.
However, we don’t really have ‘free will’ in the first place (only a ‘choice’, such as it is) and those that make it to Heaven are apparently incapable of sinning, so are, in effect, ‘robotised’ after all — for without the possibility that one can commit a sin, where is the free will?
Another way would have been for God to have simply banished Satan and his followers to their own personalised Hell after the rebellion, whereby Adam and Eve would not have been led astray and messed up God’s plan.
Or God could have omitted the Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil from Eden when He was landscaping it.
The tree presented an unnecessary danger, as God warned Adam and Even that if they ate from it they would surely die.
But why put it there in the first place?
So Adam and Eve would have ‘free will’, Christians claim.
No. If the tree had not been there they would still have had free will. How could it be otherwise?
Its presence demonstrates that God, if Adam and Eve were His children, was an awful parent — negligent and cruel.
I have a four-month-old daughter. If I was to put a bowl of bleach in her bedroom, but tell her that she must not drink it, who would disagree that I was a terrible and irresponsible father?
And if I allowed the mischievous kid from next door into my house and allowed him to coax her into sipping some of the bleach, wouldn’t it be time to call in Social Services?
Apparently not, as this is Godly behaviour. And whatever God does it right, right?
In Eden the tree was the bleach and Serpent the mischievous kid.
Adam and Eve were like children and obviously naive. Eve was ‘beguiled’ by the sly Serpent and God held them accountable.
But this is not fair.
If Adam and Eve had no knowledge of good and evil (making them unaccountable), then they would not have been accountable for eating from the tree. They couldn’t have known it was wrong.
The only way to reconcile this is for Christians to claim that they had some knowledge of good and evil.
So, why didn’t God give them more? That way they could have told the Serpent to go slither!
And if all this wasn’t bad enough, it must be remembered that even before God created them, He knew they would fail this ‘test’.
But He let it play out regardless. It was a put-up job.
Now, I might only be a fallible human with a primitive mind and severely lacking in superpowers, but I still endeavour to protect my baby from all that can hurt her.
There are no bottles of bleach in her bedroom and I am careful about whom she meets.
Gradually, as she grows and learns, her autonomy and the access she has to the world around her will expand and my influence will be less keenly felt, but I’ll always try to be there to guide and protect her.
I hope that one day she will tell me she loves me. I hope she will come to this realisation by herself and not, unlike God, because I have threatened her with some gruesome alternative.
As a result of the test in Eden, Adam fell and today we are still picking up the pieces.
Tracing it back, it’s plain to see God was negligent and it is actually Him who is accountable.
Yet, somehow, we have been shouldered with the blame.
How did that happen?
There are many more instances that God is shown to be a monster.
What follows is a look at how God conducts Himself in a range of scenarios.
In them, He plays by His ‘rules’ as set out in the Bible — which He authored.
After reading them I invite you to ponder whether or not He is worthy of your worship and is someone you’d like to spend eternity with — if He even exists, of course.
n God is the sustainer of all things and a god of infinite love, yet it is He alone who sustains non-believers in eternal torment. How can this be?
n Why doesn’t God create only those whom He knows would come to choose Him of their own ‘free wills’?
This way there is no soul wastage and Hell stays empty.
And how can a mortal man apparently out-think God?
n What happened to the souls of the children killed at Dunblane?
Are they in Heaven or Hell?
If they are in Hell then God is a monster.
If they are in Heaven then why does not God simply take all the souls He creates straight to Heaven?
If they are just as ‘worthy’ as the souls that take the ‘free will’, biological route, and are not robots despite having not actually ‘chosen’ God, then what need was there for Man?
God’s ‘solution’ results in too much soul wastage.
Mine results in none.
Surely one soul toasting for eternity is one too many?
It never had to happen.
And how can a mortal man apparently out-think God twice?
n Who chooses who?
Romans 9:15-16
“For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is Not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy”.
It seems here that salvation is down to God’s will and NOT Man’s (supposed) free will (to accept or reject Him).
If this is the case, then we do not choose to follow Christ of our own volition, as we really had no say in the matter.
Circumstances must then be somehow ‘tweaked’ by God so that we find Him in a way that makes us think we had a choice.
Those who end up getting saved were saved all along — and those who don’t, weren’t.
So, why bother either way?
If God wants you, then you’re sorted, but if He doesn’t, then you’re doomed. And there’s nothing you can do about it (and I’d heard God doesn’t want robots worshipping Him).
Kind of puts the devil out of a job too!
n And if that wasn’t bad enough, all this points to the unsettling possibility that not every baby who dies gets saved.
Why? Well, if all babies get saved then all adults would be saved too, as there is no loss of eternal life once one gets it (else it is salvation based on continued merit).
If all babies were saved, then when they grow up, they are still saved, which means there are no unsaved people in the world since all were once babies.
And no-one is claiming that everyone gets saved.
This means many babies are eternally condemned, while others are not (God willing).
So, there we have it. Salvation is not ours to choose and babies go to Hell.
n Atheists, contrary to popular belief, do not reject God, rather they reject the ‘idea, concept or notion’ of God. To reject God you must know He exists, and if they knew He existed, who would deny Him, save for the insane?
And those apparently insane enough to actually ‘choose’ not to love God, should they not be protected from themselves?
n Is there any sin that actually justifies burning in Hell forever? Wouldn’t a billion years cover most transgressions?
And why is it that Hitler will not get any stiffer sentence than someone who has simply not heard The Word, or a Hindu, say?
n If you want to get to Heaven you had better pick the right deity from the multitude on offer.
Looks like it’s off to the fiery place with the millions of Moslems, Hindus and other ‘religious deviants’ out there.
But what about those who, through no fault of their own, have not been exposed to Christianity, people without the mental capacity to invite God into their lives, those who have seen nothing to suggest a god and, of course, atheists? Well, they’re all going to burn.
We are all individuals, with varying degrees of intelligence, awareness, self-esteem, mental fortitude, compassion, emotional intelligence, gullibility, integrity, humanity and sanity etc.
Factor in alleged ‘free will’ and it's clear that all men (and women) are not created equal, especially in mind, and as a direct consequence their chances of being saved are not equal either.
n My mum was a Christian. Her sons are not.
In Heaven, won’t her eternal life be hell knowing that the three sons she adores are toasting below — forever?
Apparently not, as I’m told that ‘in Heaven there will be no cause of sadness, no tears, only adoration of God!’
So, just what is going on there then?
Some kind of mindwipe, selective amnesia, brainwashing?
Memories and experiences help define who my mother is. I’m sure she’d want to hang onto them.
Unless, of course, they didn’t help shape her after all, and she was pre-determined.
But we have free will, don’t we?
n During the conflict in Bosnia I recall reading about a teenage (an age where she is ‘accountable’) girl whose father, grandfather and brothers had been shot by Serbs in front of her eyes when they burst into her home.
She and her mother were later raped, but left to live. I don’t know if she was religious or not.
Perhaps she was waiting for a little more life experience before committing herself one way or the other.
But just say she could not accept that a loving god would have let all this happen to her and so rejected Him. And after what she suffered, who could blame her?
However, if she were to keep this view, then Hell awaits.
Where would be the justice in that?
n Why does God order children killed?
When invading Jericho, as instructed by God, the Jews “annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well cattle, sheep, and donkeys.” (Joshua, Chapter 6.)
When taking Ai, as instructed by God, the Jews “annihilated all who lived in Ai,” including all of the men, women, and children. (Joshua, Chapter 8.)
n God allowed Job to suffer just to prove a point!
Why did God feel obligated to prove anything to the devil?
Why did He let Job suffer?
Some other quick questions just for fun:
n If God has always existed and knows past, present and future all at once, why did He go to the bother of creating anything (angels, universe, Man etc) when He would have always known every single thought and action of everything He brought into existence?
What would be the difference between God just thinking about creating and actually doing it?
The moment He thought about it He would instantly know how everything would unfold.
So, what would be served by actually creating anything?
Especially considering the way it turned out!
n How can God be omnipotent and omniscient, knowing the future, but being unable to change it?
n Is God Omniscient?
He regretted what He created and brought The Flood.
How can an omniscient being regret anything when He has always known what would happen?
n Of what use was The Flood when God knew He’d eventually have to send His son to save sinning Man?
n Is The Bible Correct?
The Earth orbits the sun. But the Bible says:
1 Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.”
Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...”
Psalm 96:10: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...”
Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.”
Isaiah 45:18: “...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...”
n An extreme and disturbing example of taking the Bible literally is demonstrated by mountain people in the Appalachians. Their faith leads them to pick up serpents and even stand on them — as it says to do in the Bible.
At their services they not only pick up rattlers and cobras, but then proceed to dance about with them while shouting out verses from the Good Book. If anyone does get bitten, which is often, they do not get anti-venom — only prayers.
Despite the power of prayer many of the congregation have missing fingers through bites and a few of them have even died.
However, their demise is not seen as such a bad thing as God has seen fit to take their loved ones to a much better place. Now that’s what I call faith!
But where does it get the snake ‘charmers’? Dead or short-changed when they buy gloves. Why God has ‘protected’ them on previous occasions and has now seen fit to take them is anyone’s guess.
I’d imagine the grieving families would say it was ‘God’s will’ or that ‘God moves in mysterious ways’. These people are convinced they have interpreted God’s word correctly, but many Christians would disagree.
I wonder just how many Christians are going about their business as God actually wants?
And how many ‘Christians’, despite their best intentions, are not set for salvation?
n Why create such a primitive form of life (and just the one, remember) that can barely comprehend the Universe it lives in to seek praise and love from? Why didn’t he create a species more on His own level?
n Would we know a god if we saw one? Any alien species that was sufficiently advanced could easily appear to us as gods. But they wouldn’t be gods, would they? But how would we know?
Surely they could pull the holy wool over our eyes and mystify with their control of matter and energy through their amazing technologies.
It would be like modern-day men in helicopters swooping down on Stone Age man and showing off with a few blasts from a flamethrower.
Would we not appear to them as gods? We know we’re not gods, but how would they?
Christians should consider how they’d know God if they met him. How they could know absolutely it was Him?
n The power of prayer… when 1.1 billion Catholics recently prayed for the Pope (God’s No. 1 representative on Earth, apparently) to get better, look what happened — he suffered some more and then died.
“Ah, but”, some will say, “it was God’s will that he died”.
OK then, so why pray… ever?
If it’s ‘God’s will’ then it will happen, and if it’s not then you’re wasting your breath.
However, this contradicts what it says in the Bible.
John 14:13 — And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Matt 18:19 — Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
n And finally, just what will the saved do for eternity?
They said it…
n “As a Darwinian, something strikes me when I look at religion. Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. The vast majority of people have an allegiance to one particular religion. There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of those. Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one that their parents belong to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained glass, the best music: when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing, compared to the matter of heredity. This is an unmistakable fact; nobody could seriously deny it. Yet people with full knowledge of the arbitrary nature of this heredity, somehow manage to go on believing in their religion, often with such fanaticism that they are prepared to murder people who follow a different one. Truths about the cosmos are true all around the universe. They don’t differ in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Poland, or Norway. Yet, we are apparently prepared to accept that the religion we adopt is a matter of an accident of geography.” — Richard Dawkins.
n “The more you understand the significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the agnostic position and towards atheism. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
The great beauty of Darwin's theory of evolution is that it explains how complex, difficult to understand things could have arisen step by plausible step, from simple, easy to understand beginnings. We start our explanation from almost infinitely simple beginnings: pure hydrogen and a huge amount of energy. Our scientific, Darwinian explanations carry us through a series of well-understood gradual steps to all the spectacular beauty and complexity of life.
The alternative hypothesis, that it was all started by a supernatural creator, is not only superfluous, it is also highly improbable. It falls foul of the very argument that was originally put forward in its favour. This is because any God worthy of the name must have been a being of colossal intelligence, a supermind, an entity of extremely low probability — a very improbable being indeed.
Even if the postulation of such an entity explained anything (and we don't need it to), it still wouldn’t help because it raises a bigger mystery than it solves.
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that. We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.” — Richard Dawkins.
n “Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.” — William James.
n “The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel, making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.” — H.L. Mencken.
n “We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.” — H.L. Mencken.
n “You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.” — Aldous Huxley.
n “Scriptures, n: the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.” — Ambrose Bierce.
n “Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.” — Oscar Wilde.
n “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylums shows that faith does not prove anything.” — Friedrich W. Nietzsche.
n “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.” — Friedrich W. Nietzsche.
n “If you talk to god you are praying; if god talks to you, you have schizophrenia.” — Thomas Szasz.
n “If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.” — Voltaire.
n “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.” — H.L. Mencken.
n “The character of a church . . . can be seen in its attitude toward its detractors.” — Hugh Prather.
Regards,
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