I know all about gods, Captain. I know that a god that demands a child’s life is not a god worth serving.
— Boneclaw Mother, Digger
I'm an angel with a shotgun,
Fighting 'til the war's won,
I don't care if heaven won't take me back.
I'll throw away my faith, babe, just to keep you safe.
Fighting 'til the war's won,
I don't care if heaven won't take me back.
I'll throw away my faith, babe, just to keep you safe.
— "Angel With A Shotgun", The Cab
Jonathan Van Ness: The Church is what I feel alienated by, not God. I feel completely loved and accepted by God and Jesus. It's a lot of the politics of the Church, that's what made me feel not welcome because that was the choir of people saying, "I love you, I just don't accept your lifestyle choices".
Bobby Berk: I can relate to that.
Bobby Berk: I can relate to that.
— Queer Eye (2018), "God Bless Gay"
Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.
—Alan Moore, 2003
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. And if there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
— Marcus Aurelius (attrib.)
This explanation, like many others which are based on a petty and sanctimonious interpretation of the law, was much more scholastic and theological than charitable and benevolent.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
"All religions insist on peace. From this we might think that the religious struggle for peace is simple ... but it is not. The deep problem is that people use religion wrongly in pursuit of victory and triumph. This sad fact then leads to conflict with people who have different beliefs."
"While I believed the Bible was the "Word of God," I also knew no amount of reading the Bible would cause me to accept the teachings of 1 Timothy (which decrees that women should submit to men). If that passage of scripture accurately reflected the will of God, then I wanted nothing to do with God."
— Guy Nave, Medium.com, "Mr. Speaker, There’s No Such Thing as a “Bible-Believing” Christian
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