Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 11

The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods
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Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story
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It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories
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There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity
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On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots
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I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life.
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Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
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We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.
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Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing our faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in charge
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Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?
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There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom
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Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's
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One man's faith is considered idolatry by another
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Apologetics=faith is weak, lets defend it
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Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.
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The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live
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You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.
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A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials.
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If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority.
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Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world
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God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal
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What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope.
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Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.
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No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods.
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Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so
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No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs
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Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some
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Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men
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Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds
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Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie
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Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in
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Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul
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Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.
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Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be
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Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.
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You will always find all the time you need in the world to do what you love. If you can’t find the time, it’s not important for you
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This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have
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Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.
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When something looks impossible, don’t give up without testing its impossibility
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As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.
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The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-
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Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein
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Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days.
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Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives
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It’s not how much material things you have hoarded that will make you happy but how satisfied you are with what you have so far. A rich person can be the poorest wreck if he is not satisfied with what he already has and a materially poor can be happy if he is satisfied with the little he has.
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The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you
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A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.
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People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth
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