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Sermons
“God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme! <br class="br">Ruy Blas (1838), Act II, Scene V http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Ruy_Blas#ACTE_2_SCENE_5
“Man is becoming God—that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making.”
Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982) German politician
Source: The Voice of Destruction (1940), p. 246
Context: Yes, man has to be passed and surpassed. Nietzsche did, it is true, realized something of this, in his way. He went so far as to recognize the superman as a new biological variety. But he was not too sure of it. Man is becoming God—that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making.
“God became man in order to make me God; therefore I want to be changed completely into pure God”
Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) Italian author and nurse
Ibid., P.109.
“To enrich God, man must become poor; that God may be all, man must be nothing.”
Ludwig Feuerbach book The Essence of Christianity
The Essence of Christianity (1841)
Jürgen Moltmann (1926) German Reformed theologian
Source: The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
“I became a man by becoming a public man.”
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 72.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (1902–1975) Indian activist
The Need of Atheism
Context: Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality. Atheism alone is the surest way to morality. Those who oppose atheism in any form betray their vested interests in inequality of some kind of other.
