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It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

— Alfred Loisy

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

— Nicholas Mosley

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

— Johann Most

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

— Richard Dawkins

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

— Penn Jillette

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

— Samuel Butler

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

— Reza Aslan

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

— Richard Dawkins

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

— Bono

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

— Origen

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

— Xenophanes

✗Opposing Perspectives

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