Tarsem Singh Quotes

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

World War II proves there's no God.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?

I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.