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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.


Charles Fort


#cells #compose #god #i #i am

Of course the theologians fought the facts found by the geologists, the scientists, and sought to sustain the sacred Scriptures. They mistook the bones of the mastodon for those of human beings, and by them proudly proved that "there were giants in those days." They accounted for the fossils by saying that God had made them to try our faith, or that the Devil had imitated the works of the Creator. They answered the geologists by saying that the "days" in Genesis were long periods of time, and that after all the flood might have been local. They told the astronomers that the sun and moon were not actually, but only apparently, stopped. And that the appearance was produced by the reflection and refraction of light. They excused the slavery and polygamy, the robbery and murder upheld in the Old Testament by saying that the people were so degraded that Jehovah was compelled to pander to their ignorance and prejudice. In every way the clergy sought to evade the facts, to dodge the truth, to preserve the creed. At first they flatly denied the facts -- then they belittled them -- then they harmonized them -- then they denied that they had denied them. Then they changed the meaning of the "inspired" book to fit the facts. At first they said that if the facts, as claimed, were true, the Bible was false and Christianity itself a superstition. Afterward they said the facts, as claimed, were true and that they established beyond all doubt the inspiration of the Bible and the divine origin of orthodox religion. Anything they could not dodge, they swallowed and anything they could not swallow, they dodged. I gave up the Old Testament on account of its mistakes, its absurdities, its ignorance and its cruelty. I gave up the New because it vouched for the truth of the Old. I gave it up on account of its miracles, its contradictions, because Christ and his disciples believe in the existence of devils -- talked and made bargains with them. expelled them from people and animals. This, of itself, is enough. We know, if we know anything, that devils do not exist -- that Christ never cast them out, and that if he pretended to, he was either ignorant, dishonest or insane.


Robert G. Ingersoll


#fabrications #lies #reality #science #theologians

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.


John Polkinghorne


#beginning #creation #doctrine #pay #science

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.


Robert Vaughn


#mysteries #philosophers #same #searched #theologians

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.


Nicholas Mosley


#easily #god #point #say #theologians

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


H. L. Mencken


#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.


Johann Most


#assumes #conclusions #forth #god #idea

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.


John Polkinghorne


#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.


John Polkinghorne


#conceptual #course #especially #familiarize #good

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.


John Polkinghorne


#because #every #everything #god #great






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