C.J. Werleman > Quotes

“New Atheism simplicity is the byproduct of collective groupthink, and the internalization of self-congratulatory jingoistic clichés and generalizations. They know because they know, and there's no reasoning with someone who knows."
- The New Atheist Threat: The Dangerous Rise of Secular Extremists”
― C.J. Werleman, The New Atheist Threat: The Dangerous Rise of Secular Extremists

“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.” Peter O’Toole”
― C.J. Werleman, God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” FRANKLIN P. ADAMS”
― C.J. Werleman, Crucifying America: the unholy alliance between the Christian Right and Wall Street

“Epicurus, the Greek Philosopher, had the common sense to write way back in 300 BC: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― C.J. Werleman, God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible

“And as they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled down large hailstones down on them (Gibeonites) from the sky and more of them died from the hailstones than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.” (Joshua 10:11 NIV)”
― C.J. Werleman, God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible

“American political activist Anne Lamott stated: “You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― C.J. Werleman, God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible

“What we find is that whenever we create an unambiguous situation like this and look at the results of prayer, prayer never works. God never answers prayers if there is no possibility of coincidence.”
― C.J. Werleman, God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible

“In other words, almost everything Harris, Dawkins, Hitchens, Hirsi Ali, and Maher have written or said on the topic of Islamic terrorism ignores politics, socio-economics, history, and studies of global terrorism.”
― C.J. Werleman, The New Atheist Threat: The Dangerous Rise of Secular Extremists

“The captured King of Ai was brought handcuffed before Joshua. Joshua taking his cue from God drove a spear through the king and hung his body from a tree until evening. “At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take down his body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.” (Joshua 8:29 NIV)”
― C.J. Werleman, God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible

“the New Atheists echo the neo-conservative myth that “the roots of Muslim rage” are rooted in Islamic culture itself, rather than political issues such as Western imperialism, the Israeli-Palestine conflict, colonial legacy racism, and the oppression forced upon them by U.S. backed autocratic despots.”
― C.J. Werleman, The New Atheist Threat: The Dangerous Rise of Secular Extremists

“My reply to that kind of statement is that first of all, I am utterly enthralled by religion, all religion! I am constantly surprised, shocked and perplexed that anyone can feel indifference to the most important philosophical questions of all time; the questions that religion purports to answer: “What is the meaning of the human existence?”; and “how did we get here?”
― C.J. Werleman, Jesus Lied - He Was Only Human: Debunking The New Testament

“JESUS LIED, HE WAS ONLY HUMAN CJ WERLEMAN”
― C.J. Werleman, Jesus Lied - He Was Only Human: Debunking The New Testament

“for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the Church.” (1 Corinthians 14:33-35 NIV)”
― C.J. Werleman, Jesus Lied - He Was Only Human: Debunking The New Testament

“When the soldiers gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in and they took the city. They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.” (Joshua 6:20-21”
― C.J. Werleman, God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible

“Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’ “ (Mark 7:14-16 NIV)”
― C.J. Werleman, Jesus Lied - He Was Only Human: Debunking The New Testament