Theologies Quotes
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Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.
stephen colbert— On "Bill O'Reilly Proves God's Existence - Neil deGrasse Tyson", The Colbert Report (Comedy Central), 6 January 2011
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.
william james— Lecture II, "Circumscription of the Topic"
The greatness of Turgot now began to appear: while he performed all the duties of the seminary and studied thoroughly what was required, he gave himself to a wide range of other studies, and chiefly in two very different directions to thought and work upon those problems in religion which transcend all theologies, and upon those problems in politics which are of vast importance in all countries, and which especially needed discussion in his own.
turgot, anne robert jacques, baron de laune— p.167 (Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915))
1 Kalki ( talk · contributions ) 19:54, 30 December 2011 (UTC) I can agree with much of the portent of this statement, but actually tend to embrace theologies which believe the Ultimate Being ultimately forgives everyone their mortal flaws, deficiencies and apparent imperfections :;but that does not mean it is possible to pardon them and doing their best to avoid the worst of unpardonable errors and helping others to do the same is the responsibility of the wise. 2 Kalki 01:04, 27 December 2008 (UTC) . 2 InvisibleSun 20:51, 31 December 2008 (UTC) It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war. ~ Leonid Brezhnev (born January 1)
— SOURCE: Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism - Page 224 by Robert Jay Lifton, Richard A. Falk - Political Science - 1982
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
— Tennessee Williams, in The Night of the Iguana (1963).
All the western theologies are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
tennessee williams— Cited in Jonathan Miller, (2005). A Brief History of Disbelief [TV-Series]. BBC Four.
