“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”
John Updike
“I'm no theologian. I don't know who or what God is. All I know is he's more powerful than Mom and Dad put together.”
Yeardley Smith
“I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.”
Oscar Wilde
“As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing”
Johann Most
“FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.”
Charles Fort
“We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
