Michael Harbron > Quotes

“Good literature is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the ones who are comfortable.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil

“Oh, you think that’s all I’ve done? Murdering Father O’Hara and crucifying him? I have done plenty worse than that, Joe! You don’t want to know, but I will show you. You have forced my hand, and I don’t like it when anyone forces my hand. God cast me out of heaven and I’ve spent all my life waging a spiritual war against his latest and greatest creation. And now, you, you’ve tried to back out of this deal and I will show just how seething red my wrath is!” The Devil snarled, his face twisted into a most loathsome expression.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil: Resurrection

“So, the Absolute would be the God above God?”  “The way I see it, and I don’t see it one way, God and the Devil are two binaries. For God to exist, He must exist without any badness. And so what happens of all the evil siphoned from the persona of God? That’s the Devil. They’re one and the same. One entirely good. The other entirely evil. Lords of their domains. One of heaven. The other of Hell. The Absolute would be someone who distilled the good and dubbed it God, filtered the bad and called it the Devil.” ”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil: Epoch

“For either of us, it's not a matter of what you believe in as much as it is of what you do. Tell me, Joseph, who is better? An agnostic who gives open-heartedly to charity and is a paragon of upstanding values or a very religious asshole who purports religion to contort and control? Sinning believers settled in their sinful ways in the comfort of the knowledge that their sins have been preemptively pardoned are infinitely worse than those who walk in doubt and seek not to harm anyone.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil: Resurrection

“His mother was not a woman of faith but a charlatan masking her hypocrisy.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil: Resurrection

“The central thesis of The Skeptic examined how religious beliefs and doctrines had historically been utilized by those in power as a means of societal control.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil

“God and the Devil were embodiments of fundamental principles that shape the universe. They provided a framework for humans to understand the complexities of existence. However, the ultimate goal was for humanity to recognize the limitations of these dualistic constructs and to seek a higher understanding of the Universe.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil: Epoch

“It’s all this organized shit that I don’t get, Joseph. Life is a series of unpredictable events dictated by theories such as chaos theory, game theory…One can say that it’s a big game of chaos, even. And yet, humans deviate from what is truly ingrained in their system—chaos, Joseph—in hopes of achieving something they haven’t seen, haven’t understood, and have no way of confirming its existence other than by means of blind faith. Ah, the fucking inanity of it all.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil

“If there is a God, you should be supplicating directly to him instead of running to these criminal perpetrators of organized religion who usurp the gullible.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil

“Faith that is never questioned, never examined, can become dangerous.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil

“Your God wanted to light the match; it was I who begged the question of how long it would take for the place to burn down.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil

“The Despairful One. Satanas. The Adversary. Samael. The Venom of God.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil