“I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”

Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (1999) Page 61

&quot;Is There a God?&quot; http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/isThereGod.htm (1952), commissioned by Illustrated Magazine but not published until its appearance in The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 11: Last Philosophical Testament, 1943-68, ed. John G. Slater and Peter Köllner (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 543-48 <br class="br">1950s <br class="br">Context: Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

Source: The Pig Who Sang to the Moon (2003), Ch. 2, p. 59

From "The Diary of Billy Talent":

Mitch All Together (2003)

Source: Hogfather

Daily strip for July 19, 2002
Joe Doman

And somehow, it was God. I wasn't sure that it was… just something cool and dark and clean.
God Dies (1931)

Chewed Up