pohdittavaksi:
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill"
"The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
Ravi Zacharias"
"The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
Oswald Chambers"
"The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.
C.S. Lewis"
"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C.S. Lewis"
"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., Materialism and Astronomy - are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.
C.S. Lewis"
"The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe"
"Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.
Peter Kreeft"
"An utterly fascinating illustration of this duping of ourselves is the latest arts building opened at Ohio State University, the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts, another one of our chimerical exploits in the name of intellectual advance. Newsweek branded this building "America's first deconstructionist building." It's white scaffolding, red brick turrets, and Colorado grass pods evoke a double take. But puzzlement only intensifies when you enter the building, for inside you encounter stairways that go nowhere, pillars that hang from the ceiling without purpose, and angled surfaces configured to create a sense of vertigo. The architect, we are duly informed, designed this building to reflect life itself-senseless and incoherent-and the "capriciousness of the rules that organize the built world." When the rationale was explained to me, I had just one question: Did he do the same with the foundation?
The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is possible to dress up and romanticize our bizarre experiments in social restructuring while disavowing truth or absolutes. But one dares not play such deadly games with the foundations of good thinking.
Ravi Zacharias"
"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun"
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill"
"The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
Ravi Zacharias"
"The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
Oswald Chambers"
"The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.
C.S. Lewis"
"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C.S. Lewis"
"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., Materialism and Astronomy - are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.
C.S. Lewis"
"The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe"
"Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.
Peter Kreeft"
"An utterly fascinating illustration of this duping of ourselves is the latest arts building opened at Ohio State University, the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts, another one of our chimerical exploits in the name of intellectual advance. Newsweek branded this building "America's first deconstructionist building." It's white scaffolding, red brick turrets, and Colorado grass pods evoke a double take. But puzzlement only intensifies when you enter the building, for inside you encounter stairways that go nowhere, pillars that hang from the ceiling without purpose, and angled surfaces configured to create a sense of vertigo. The architect, we are duly informed, designed this building to reflect life itself-senseless and incoherent-and the "capriciousness of the rules that organize the built world." When the rationale was explained to me, I had just one question: Did he do the same with the foundation?
The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is possible to dress up and romanticize our bizarre experiments in social restructuring while disavowing truth or absolutes. But one dares not play such deadly games with the foundations of good thinking.
Ravi Zacharias"
"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun"
Vastaukset 8
Vanhimmat
Oletkos kuullut sitä että ihmisillä jotka siteeraavat muita, ei ole mainittavasti omia ajatuksia?
Mikähän tuo arkkitehtuurijuttukin oli olevinaan?
Koska puolihullu arkkitehtuuri tarvitsee alleen järkevät perustukset pysyäkseen pystyssä, niin samalla tavoin ateisti tarvitsee höpinöilleen Jumalan asettaman perustan? Ja se perusta on Jumalan luoma tietoisuus ja äly, joka mahdollistaa ajattelemisen, myös huonon ajattelemisen?
Jumala antoi sinulle aivot, joten aivosi ovat todiste siitä, että Jumala on olemassa. Hohhoijaa...
"Luullakseni uskonto perustuu etusijassa ja pääasiallisesti pelkoon. Se on osittain pelkoa tuntematonta kohtaan, osittain sitä, että ihminen toivoo, että hänellä olisi eräänlainen isoveli seisomassa rinnallaan jokaisen vaikeuden ja kiistan kohdatessa. Pelko on koko jutun perusta — salaperäisyyden pelko, häviämisen pelko, kuoleman pelko. Pelko on julmuuden alku, eikä sen vuoksi olekaan ihme, että julmuus ja uskonto ovat kulkeneet käsi kädessä." - Bertrand Russell
"En luota ihmisiin jotka niin varmasti väittävät tietävänsä mitä Jumala heidän tahtoo tekevän, sillä olen huomannut niiden aina olevan heidän omia toiveitaan."
- Susan Anthony
"Useimpien ihmisten uskonto on sitä, mitä he haluaisivat uskoa, ei sitä, mitä he uskovat. Ja vain aniharvat heistä pysähtyvät tutkimaan sen perusteita."
- Luther Burban
"Mitä enemmän olen tutkinut uskontoja, sitä vakuuttuneemmaksi olen tullut, ettei ihminen ole koskaan palvonut muuta kuin itseään." - Sir Richard Francis Burton
"Hyvät ihmiset tekevät hyviä asioita ja pahat ihmiset pahoja asioita. Mutta jotta hyvät ihmiset tekevät pahoja asioita, siihen tarvitaan uskontoa." - Steven Weinberg
"Oli aika jolloin kaikki ihmiset uskoivat Jumalaan ja kirkot hallitsivat. Tätä aikaa kutsuttiin Pimeäksi Ajaksi." - Richard Lederer
"Sillä niin on Jumala maailmaa rakastanut, että Hän antoi ainokaisen poikansa, niin että jokainen, joka häneen uskoo, uskoo todennäköisesti ihan mihin tahansa."
"On matalan ja alhaisen mielen merkki, kun joku tahtoo olla samaa mieltä massojen tai enemmistön kanssa vain siksi, että enemmistö on enemmistö. Totuus ei muutu sen perusteella, uskooko ihmisten enemmistö siihen vai ei." - Giordano Bruno
"Suurin osa ihmisistä tappaisi Totuuden, mikäli totuus tappaisi heidän uskontonsa." - Lemuel K. Washburn
"Uskolla on sisäänrakennettu puolustusjärjestelmä; mikä tahansa asia joka kyseenalaistaa jonkun uskomuksen, kuinka looginen väite tahansa, on Saatanan työtä siitä yksinkertaisesta syystä, että se saa sinut kyseenalaistamaan uskosi."
- Bill Hicks
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms." -- Albert Einstein
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation"
Tässä taas nähdään miten äly ja viisaus ei välttämättä asu samassa talossa.
Olikohan Einsteinillä myös hankaluuksia kuvitella isää joka palkitsisi tai rankaisisi lastansa?
Jotenkin siitä raamatun jumalasta ei tule ihan tuo analogia mieleen...
Einsteinilla - kuten minullakin - taisi olla vaikeuksia kuvitella hyvää ja rakastavaa isää, joka sulkisi vaimonsa ja lapsensa kellariin ja kiduttaisi näitä siellä mahdollisimman julmasti ikuisesti ja vain siksi että nämä eivät enää rakasta isää.
Koska tuollaisella ikuisella kiduttamisella ei ole mitään tekemistä rakkauden kanssa, se on vain äärimmäisen julmaa sadismia. Mutta juuri noin raamatun julmala toimii.
Muutenkin Einstein oli sitä mieltä että jumalaan uskominen on lapsellista ja raamatun sadut alkukantaisen lapsellisia legendoja. Viisas mies näki totuuden terävästi.
http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/200805137648885_ul.shtml
"Minulle juutalainen uskonto on kuten kaikki muutkin (uskonnot): lapsellisten taikauskojen ruumiillistuma" itsekin juutalainen Einstein kirjoittaa."
"Järki on uskon vihollinen" - Martti Lutter.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
Pätee hyvin hihuihin.Silti uskonhypnoosi pätee vaikka näkeekin että mistään jumalasta ei ole todisteita.
"The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down."
Kuulostaa ihan hihun uskonmenetykseltä.
"The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life."
Tyhjiä sanoja täynnä uskonnollista tuubaa.
"The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.
Mielipidehän se on.
"meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
Faaraon sydämen kovettaminen ja amalekilaisten sylivauvojen ja kotieläinten teurastus jumalallisen kansanmurhan nimissä on siis Jumala opettamassa oikeudenmukaisuutta hihulle.
"I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset."
En muistanut että Lewis oli näin yksinkertainen. Joskus pidin jostain hänen kirjastaan.
"The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God."
Tyhjiä sanoja.
"Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe."
No ihan miten hihu haluaa selitellä asian. Eipä se pidä paikkaansa, mutta sehän ei hihuja kiinnosta.