"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion." Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate
2007-05-21 17:45:00 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well if you mean as an example of someone who lacks understanding of God's grace and the depraved state of humanity and how God's common grace restrains evil then yes I would have to say that is a great example of someone who lacks a spiritual understanding of the human condition.
2007-05-21 17:51:13 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 3⤊ 7⤋
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues - Edward Abbey
And from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
For those of you who keep bringing up communism and atheism in the same sentance, please do some more reading. Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. It has nothing to do with religion or lack thereof. People were not killed because they were of a certain religion, unlike the crusades or Hitler.
2007-05-22 01:20:31 · answer #2 · answered by Sarcasma 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hard to imagine a Nobel laureate being blissfully unaware of the slaughter atheist communism gave priests in Russia and China or the massacre that followed the French Revolution, but it is certainly the case here. But hey, he is a physicist and a Nobel laueate so he must be right, right?
2007-05-22 00:56:29 · answer #3 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think it's great. It might be missing some points. For there are good people who do evil things, for no other reason, than they want to, (but then again, that's probably what makes them evil).
So it is right..
2007-05-22 01:23:38 · answer #4 · answered by Sapere Aude 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I prefer the following that I heard on the TV show "Forever Night".
"Will the day we give up the ghost be a day of celebration in heaven, or are we just another log on the fires of Hell? "
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2007-05-22 00:53:21 · answer #5 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I disagree - good people can do evil things without religion just fine.
2007-05-22 00:52:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
There is good and bad in everything and this fella only touched on one, so as far as it being the best quote ever, id say,negative.
2007-05-22 01:10:07 · answer #7 · answered by flowerpower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not by a long shot. My very favorite quote is this:
"If fifty-million people say a foolish thing, it is still
a foolish thing."
Anatole France (novelist) -- 1844-1924
2007-05-22 00:58:21 · answer #8 · answered by Pete K 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's pretty well said!! Christians have a saying that they aren't perfect but forgiven..... Put some thought into that one! Right in there.....
2007-05-22 00:54:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
great quote! religion is also an insult to to intelligence
2007-05-22 02:03:42 · answer #10 · answered by pepperbdl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Awesome quote! I do not, however, believe that good people do evil things. I think good people sometimes ALLOW evil things to happen -- without doing anything to stop it -- because of their religious dogma.
2007-05-22 00:50:38 · answer #11 · answered by Solstice 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋