Ulrich L. Lehner > Quotes

“For a long time I used to think this is a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life—namely myself.”9”
― Ulrich L. Lehner, God Is Not Nice: Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For

“You cannot argue with someone who “feels” he is right and does not submit to rational standards.”
― Ulrich L. Lehner, God Is Not Nice: Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For

“Either religious values are the highest—because they are experienced in God, the source of all goodness, beauty, and truth—or they are superfluous projections of our subconscious.9 If we insist on the independent sphere of religion and of the values of the Holy, not by invoking Bible verses but by invoking reason, we can save our belief from being abused. Then society will take us more seriously, because we are not claiming to be the icing on the cake but rather people with a message that will transform the world.”
― Ulrich L. Lehner, God Is Not Nice: Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For