11 Quotes by Salman Rushdie about God
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.The problem’s name is God.
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All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?"[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006]
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Amikor az ember a lehetetlenre vállalkozik, mindennap a halállal utazik, megtisztulásnak, a lélek felemelkedésének fogadja el az utazást, s így az út nem az istenek megnevezése, hanem maga Isten felé tart.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What’s worse is that he is now running amok.
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What sort of god could be excused the actions of his followers? Didn’t it, in a way, infantilise the deity to say he was powerless against the faithful?
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The gods, I correct her. Monotheism sucks, like all despotisms. The species is naturally, democratically, polytheistic, apart from that evolutionary elite which has dispensed with the divine requirement entirely. You instinctively want the gods to be many because you are One.
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