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Gods are not very introspective. It has never been a survival trait. The ability to cajole, threaten and terrify has always worked well enough. When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow’s-point-of-view is seldom necessary.
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 13,
Small Gods (1992)
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Added on 23-Oct-26 | Last updated 23-Oct-26
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Topics: absolute power, bully, cajole, deities, divine anger, divine power, divine will, divine wrath, empathy, gods, higher power, power, terrorize, threat
More quotes by Pratchett, Terry Nothing is so pleasing to these gods as the butchery of unbelievers. Nothing so enrages them, even now, as to have some one deny their existence.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois
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First given on the 135th birthday of Thomas Paine.
Collected in
The Gods and Other Lectures (1876).
Added on 23-Oct-25 | Last updated 23-Oct-25
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Topics: apostasy, deities, disbelief, divine anger, divine punishment, divine will, divine wrath, God, gods, unbeliever
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