All Quotes By Tag: Nonbelievers

“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
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“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
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“I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn’t know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it’s complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.”

Card image cap - Cheryl Strayed,
Tag: belief, faith, nonbelievers, skeptical,