Pete Holmes Quotes

Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

If you love god, burn a church.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

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

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

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

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.

My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.

The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.