{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","god-s-mysteries","god-s-secrets","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","liars","liars","lie","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","theologian","theologians","theologians","theology","theology-of-religions","theology","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":11507,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"You cannot end a theology class without hearing these recurrent words 'maybe', 'it seems to me', 'perhaps', 'the unique reason may be that', 'my belief on this subject is that', 'there are many interpretations to how', etc. All of which indicate a lack of certainty. It's not surprising in a class with the task to study the invisible god.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["divine","divinity","invisible-god","maybe","perhaps","theologian","theologians","theologians","theology","theology-of-religions","theology"],"id":103598,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","religious","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","speculate","speculation","speculations","speculative-science","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","theologian","theologians","theologians","theology","theology-of-religions","theology","theorizing","theory-of-everything","theory","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":171946,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","god-s-silence","religion","religion-and-philosophy","religion-and-science","religion","science","science-vs-religion","theologians","theology","theology-of-religions"],"id":239089,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Theologians should study in a seminary and before graduating they should make a visit to heaven and hell after which they should submit their thesis and graduate.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["funny","graduation","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","paradise","paradise","paradises","seminary","theologian","theologians","theologians","theology","theology-of-religions","theology","thesis"],"id":339947,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","research-and-development","science","science-and-religion","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","theologian","theologians","theologians","theology","theology-of-religions","theology","theories"],"id":380003,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"To merely blank the page and vaguely assume that 'religion' is the cause of all the world's problems is, on the contrary, an allegation brought about by nothing more than cognitive lethargy; it is when unburied, unpacked, and exposed but a stale conclusion and a misdirection for the one overwhelmed by centuries of sound theology, scholarly thought, and spiritual development.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","lazy","religion","theology","theology-of-religions"],"id":465815,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}