We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. - Joycelyn Elders

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
- Joycelyn Elders

The First God

The man looked up at the smoldering volcano. The forest below blazed brightly as the stream of glowing lava flowed downhill, torching each tree it passed. The man watched the animals fleeing in panic. He looked down at his wife and small child, knowing that they might well starve without the food that the eruption was destroying.

Looking up at the mountain, he cursed, "I hate you." In that moment a thing of rock was assigned a personality so that it could be hated, and the first god was created by man.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. - H. L. Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde

Osho: The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.
- Osho

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Arthur Schopenhauer: Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they should think.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer