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“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off” (Turlington Christy)
“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.” (Turlington Christy)
Is this the way of life that Islam teaches us? That we fight amongst ourselves and feel scared of fellow Muslims. (Turlington Christy)
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence. (Turlington Christy)
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Mosques are being misused for propagating and inciting hatred against each other’s sect and beliefs and against the Government, too. (Turlington Christy)
Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example. (Turlington Christy)
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. (Turlington Christy)
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. (Turlington Christy)
My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my religious conversion. Hinduism does not appeal to my conscience. My self-respect cannot assimilate Hinduism. In your case change of religion is imperative for worldly as well as spiritual ends. Do not care for the opinion of those who foolishly ridicule the idea of conversion for material ends. Why should you live under the fold of that religion which has deprived you of honor, money, food and shelter? (Turlington Christy)
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. (Turlington Christy)
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. (Turlington Christy)
The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have…Now what is the basis of Buddhism? If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion. (Turlington Christy)
“Religion becomes. a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.” (Turlington Christy)
“Jihad is part of my religion. What you have to understand is that anyone who fights on behalf of Allah, when he dies, the first drop of blood that comes out, all of his sins will be forgiven.” (Turlington Christy)
Private religious speech can’t be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech. (Turlington Christy)
The archbishop has clearly staked out a religious position, … But it’s not everybody’s religious position. (Turlington Christy)
“and allegedly he was also given Jesus' juice, and it blew the whole deal.” (Turlington Christy)
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old. (Turlington Christy)
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith. (Turlington Christy)
I believe there is no one lovelier, deeper, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus - not only is there no one else like him, but there could never be anyone like him. (Turlington Christy)
Ira Kane: If I was a giant nasty alien bird in a department store, where would I be?
Harry Block: Lingerie.
Ira Kane: Not you, the bird.
Harry Block: Lingerie. (Turlington Christy)
Ira Kane: Give me back my friend, you big sphincter! (Turlington Christy)
[Dr. Paulson is going to pull the alien bug out through Harry's rectum]
Nurse Tate: I'll get the lubricant...
Dr. Paulson: No time for lubricant!
Harry Block: There's ALWAYS time for lubricant! (Turlington Christy)
Ira Kane: Ira Kane, head of the science department, Glen Canyon Community College.
Harry Block: Harry Block, United States Geological Survey.
Wayne Grey: Wayne Grey. I took some chemistry in high school. (Turlington Christy)
[the heroes just killed a dinosaur-like creature]
Ira Kane: So, what do you want? Light meat, or dark?
Harry Block: You have to ask? (Turlington Christy)
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