Friends Church Sign of the Week
Number 5 in a series.
You can’t walk with God and hold hands with Satan.
Translation: Having trouble snuffing out your last spark of self-determination? Let us help!
“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.” — Saint Augustine
“Reason is the Devil’s greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil’s appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom… Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism… She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets.” — Martin Luther
“We found a great number of books…and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the Devil we burned them all.” — Bishop Diego de Landa after burning priceless books of Mayan history and science, July 1562
“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.” — Bertrand Russell
“The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians have helped to kill the other. If there need to be no fear of hell, people may well ask what is the attraction of heaven? Gods and devils were born together. Gods and devils will die together.” — Chapman Cohen
“They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn’t agree with.” — Gene Roddenberry
“The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? O.K., it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you’re going to be as smart as God. We can’t have that.” — Frank Zappa
“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window.” — Stephen King
“Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.” — Tom Waits
August 20th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
For St. Augustine’s quote:
How on earth do you expect all the good Christians to know how much money was gathered during the service offerings or when tithes are received if they can’t use math?
For Dr. King’s quote:
What about using a few other terms in the English language? I mean there is harlot, consort, strumpet, adulteress, or fornicator. Oh, and according to St. Augustine there is also mathematicians.
For Bishop Diego de Landa’s quote:
Book burning is the act of a frightened individual who is insecure in their beliefs and hell bent on keeping their picture of reality in tact, no matter what the cost. Shame on him and his ilk.
Thank you Mr. Russell, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Roddenberry, Mr. Zappa, Mr. King, and most especially Mr. Waits.
August 20th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Oops, my bad, wrong Martin Luther.