Supernaturalism Quotes
46 quotes
"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."
"One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die."
"Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature."
"No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise."
"Life is a natural phenomenon – and by mystifying it, one only disgraces its natural beauty."
"Common people tend to term any kind of bizarre phenomenon as “paranormal” or “supernatural”. They often exaggerate it as the work of the Gods. Behind this belief is nothing but primitive ignorance. Social progress means that people must (a necessity, not a luxury) align their beliefs and behavior to new knowledge and understanding of nature."
"Mysticism and supernaturalism are the descendants of ignorance and fear."
"It has been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn’t made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain!"
Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
"Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men"
"Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds"
"Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie"
"Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?"
"Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in"
"Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul"
"Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity."
"Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be"
"There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom"
"Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's"
"Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors."
"The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live"
"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."
"If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority."
"Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world"
"God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal"
"What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope."
"Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful."
"No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs"
"It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance"
"All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god."
"Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running."
"An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope"
"All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody."
"When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance"
"The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods"
"Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story"
"All religions are guesswork"
"My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds"
"Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help"
"God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in him, their hearts yearn for him."
"All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him."
"He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him," thunders the fanatic"
"You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell"
"Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction"
"An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair"
"I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament."
"After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity"