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October 28 - October 31, 2019
“Suicide is man’s way of telling god, you can’t fire me, I quit.” -Bill Maher
“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” -David Searls
“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” -Jonathan Swift
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” -Thomas Jefferson
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” -Anne Lamott
“Men rarely invent gods superior to themselves. Most gods have the morals and manners of a spoiled child.” -Robert Heinlein
“Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.” -Michel de Montaigne
Whatever floats your boat, I guess. As long as it doesn’t sink mine.
“Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.” -C.S. Lewis
“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?” -Plato
“This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.” -Agathon
“If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.” -Voltaire
“Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.” -Fred Allen
“Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.” -Oscar Wilde
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” -G.K. Chesterton
“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.” -Woody Allen
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.” -Blaise Pascal
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” -Isaac Asimov
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.” -Voltaire
“Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance.” -Confucius
“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” -Benjamin Franklin
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” -Buddha
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” -Leonardo da Vinci
“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.” -Indian Proverb
I set the box on the floor and kicked it under the couch with my heel, mentally fitting a Winston visit into my Friday schedule, somewhere between breakfast and going to Hell.
“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.” -Emily Dickinson
Hell was just what I needed right now, the Vegas of Eternity.
