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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
David Brooksborn 1961
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley1890–1957“Safe and Sane” in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The New Jerusalem
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Augustine of Hippo354–430De Libero Arbitrio (388—395)
When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)In context
- Religion
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2 : Religion
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Anti-Religion
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib’d
In one self place; but where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603), Act II, scene i, line 118In context
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Baltimore Evening Sun (4 April 1927)
- Clever Jabs
God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 6: How Will it All End?
- God
Brahman and Śakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 134
- God
I am of opinion that the revelation of God can only be established by the wisdom of the doctrine, not by miracles, or in other words by ignorance.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
- God
All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973On Fairy-Stories (1939)
- Writing