Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Fear is the mother of morality.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You stand at a disadvantage my friend. For you are beholding spiritual observations through fleshly eyes; and so do all that are dead in their spirits. However, the one who has experienced both spiritual death, and afterwards spiritual quickening has observed through both fleshly and spiritual eyes, that spiritual realm. So such a one has a greater perspective of those dual realities, (fleshly and spiritually). Definitely then those who have been quickened into this new (spiritual) realm, are not lacking understanding of the fleshly concept of spiritual matters. For once we all were only observers from the fleshly perspective of spiritual concepts.
So then a child is contented in his simplicity, but once he enters into adulthood he sees the folly of those times. Tell a child he is foolish to play with toys, and he will dislike you. Tell an adult he must once again think like a child, and he will despise you. In our eyes, as adults, the child's pursuits are foolish. That is because we as adults are far above their understanding, and we see the void of their awareness of the serious things of the fleshly life. So it is so with the fleshly realm. However, it is adverse of that of the spiritual discernment.For what seemed foolish within the fleshly perspective; once you enter into the spiritual realm, no longer an observer from afar, but as part of that higher order. Then you realize the folly of your past observation,(just as the adult from childhood, he now sees the folly of his youth.) This is because in the ignorance of one's lack of a concept, there rest a dwelling place, even in this life, far beyond our ability to comprehend! In that fashion of order all is reversed;
in that hidden realm that cannot be felt or truly seen, or heard, or even tasted of, in mindful observance. For in that place the only entrance is faith in the holder of the gate of entrance. There the adult full of himself and laden with sin, guilt, and sorrow, sheds them all and he is allowed to return to the innocence of his youth. He dwells now in the comfort of the joy of knowing it finally all came together when he trusted in that one which through fleshly observation was actually hidden from his eyes all along. For flesh (fleshly reasoning, thinking, observance) cannot inherit the Kingdom of God!
