Religion Quotes by Bangambiki Habyarimana

RELIGION

403. I ask all independent theologians in the world to meet in a conference and talk about the future of religion. Most of them know that religion is a manmade system of beliefs where men created the gods in their own images. The truth is that most founders of religions were backward and evil men who did not consult with anybody before they produced their monsters.

Courageous theologians up to their task must meet together and create a new god for humanity.

A god that does not throw us on each other’s throats,

a god that does not authorize one people to commit genocide against another, a god that does not foment wars among nations by granting land to certain chosen tribes,

a god that does not create evil and burn the evildoer in hell,

a god that does not create crimes and punish the criminal,

a god that does not tolerate injustices people do to others in the name of religion,

a god does not command holy wars in his name,

a god that does not show favoritism on a race over another and individuals over the others,

a god that does not bless a nation and curse another,

a god that does not curse one and bless another,

a god that does not call a people my own and the other heathen, stranger, gentile or kaffir,

a god that is not a torturer of souls in hell.

Theologians must meet and create a god of love, peace and justice for all and create doctrines and dogmas that will help humanity to live in peace and endeavor at its own development instead of its own self-destruction. If they don't do that, god will raise a great prophet among men and he will be up to the task, the spirit of god will be upon him to accomplish the impossible: to bring the true god to the masses that are eagerly waiting for him to give them love, peace and justice that they crave.

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404. Religion is politics in the spiritual realm. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

405. Religion is pure self-hypnosis. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

406. Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracle can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

407. All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

408. Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death; those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

409. It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

410. Theologians should study in a seminary and before graduating they should make a visit to heaven and hell after which they should submit their thesis and graduate. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

411. There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level of the other members of the quadrinity - Bangambiki Habyarimana

412. On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

413. I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

414. When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

415. I don't believe god has a darling tribe or nation, all tribes and nations are his darlings. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

416. If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case we are not out of the woods yet. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

417. Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone is in control. Losing your faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in charge. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

418. I wrote a "holy book" as a fun way to test if I could and see if people could believe in it, before long people told me they saw visions of the gods and afterlife I had described. People had really strong faith in the scriptures I had written. Of course I insisted they were inspired. You can't imagine how gullible people can be. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

419. The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

420. You are a tiger paper god if you cannot meet punishment on evildoers and you are a monster if you meet unnecessarily long or harsh punishments. You also need to be the god of all and be capable to save all your creation and let nothing perish or you should be considered a waste god. In fact you need to be a sensible god in all aspects if you are to have any serious followers at all. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

421. From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. ) - Bangambiki Habyarimana

422. No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

423. We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us.

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424. You think you know the truth. You no longer want to hold it from public gaze, you reveal it to simple souls who can't manage it and you lead them into unbelief, then you are left with a mob of monsters you do not know what to do with. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

425. Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves; those delusions keep their day running. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

426. If there are any ifs to salvation then no one is saved by grace. Everyone saves himself who can meet the requirements. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

427. We don't see the world in the same manner. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

428. Doubts are necessary; they keep us on the right path. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

429. We can't fight destiny, those who fight destiny were destined to do it. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

430. "The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods." - Bangambiki Habyarimana

431. We hate simple lies we can easily detect but we love lies that are well crafted to the point we take them almost as reality, hard to detect lies that give sense to our lives. He is a messiah anyone who can concoct such lies and presents them to our imaginations. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

432. We cherish martyrs not because they died for truth, but because they died for what they believed and loved. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

433. A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

434. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

435. We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

436. It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

437. Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

438. A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

439. All religions are guesswork. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

440. My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

441. Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

442. Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

443. If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

444. Can you die for a false idea? No you say. Yes I say. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

445. I have lost a lot of time and energy planting the center of my life beyond the grave into nothingness, I my life meaningless in the process. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

446. The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

447. Paradise is near to you when you are powerful; hell is nearer when you are weaker. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

448. Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

449. Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life? - Bangambiki Habyarimana

450. We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

451. Belief in the afterlife is hope against reality. Hope in man never dies and is capable even to see things over this side of life. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

452. These clergy men are preaching to us things we want to hear but in which they no longer believe. They are bottle-feeding us with spiritual milk they don't want to taste because they have overgrown it. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

453. With a woman on your side your attention is divided. The family needs undivided attention. Coupled with family conflict, a church leader is in a tight rope. I think this is the reason why the Catholic Church did away with marriage for its clergy. If it had allowed it, we wouldn't know the Catholic Church as we know it today. Maybe it would have ceased to exist all together. As for the clergy's physiological needs, I believe they have an esoteric code known only to them how they deal with the issue. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

454. A fanatic is a deeply religious man with no love in his heart. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

455. Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

456. Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does; god's firewalls are so strong no attempt has ever been successful. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

457. Theology is one of the most daring attempts ever made against god. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

458. Atheists and people who have the guts to commit suicide are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

459. I admire the way the Bible defies anybody who wants to nail it on a preferred meaning. There are so many ways to interpret the Bible as there are different opinions about what a certain passage or verse really means. So anybody can go there and read a meaning into (eigesis) whatever passage or verse he wants to suit his inclinations. Proof that the Bible is inspired? It caters for all sorts of people and views. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

460. I saw a man trying to prove god mathematically, I hate math and I failed to see his point. Am I going to hell for failing at math?- Bangambiki Habyarimana

461. Hell and heaven are within us. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

462. We are incarnations of our creator. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

463. I and my father are one. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

464. Nobody comes unto god except through me. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

465. It's always bad to reach illumination, you lose paradise. Illumination is the place where you gain knowledge that there is none but you to take care of yourself, you discover that you are the god you had all along sought and that you have no redeemer but you. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

466. You cannot end a theology class without hearing these recurrent words "maybe", "it seems to me", "perhaps", "the unique reason may be that", "my belief on this subject is that", "there are many interpretations to how", etc. All of which indicate a lack of certainty. It's not surprising in a class with the task to study the invisible god. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

467. Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help.

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468. You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

469. You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

470. Many times god has to deliver from hell people thrown there by fanatics who thought they were serving him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

471. Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

472. All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the will of god. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

473. It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

474. Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

475. An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

476. Believers in god know there is a god. That knowledge gives them hope. They depend on that belief for their life. Destroying that belief means destroying their lives. No amount of proof can lead them away from their lives- Bangambiki Habyarimana

477. "Give me something to worship; whatever.” Cries the human soul. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

478. "Will I get saved unconditionally?"

"Yes."

"Will I continue to be married with my beloved partner?"

"Yes.”

"Will I get to be with my family?"

"Yes."

"Will I continue to do what I enjoy here on earth?"

"Yes."

"Will I see my puppy Gracie?"

"Yes"

This is the future religion. A "Yes" religion. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

479. Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

480. Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

481. Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

482. Dogmas can regulate the proceedings of religions and their outside appearances, but our minds are so free that they can escape the most thought about systems to box them. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

483. Except for the indefensible evil that is produced in nature and seems to be evil for its own sake, I really can't see the difference between good and evil as both can be used for good or evil ends both for humans and the divine. There exist evil that leads to good and good that leads to evil (good that is done to reach evil ends). - Bangambiki Habyarimana

484. God is the greatest illusionist of all time. It happens in a moment and it fades in another, before your very eyes. Ultimately you lose conscience of yourself. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

485. Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

486. A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

487. Religion will be there when history passes away. Religion’s foundation is beyond history. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

488. In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me". - Bangambiki Habyarimana

489. Facebook is proof that god loves you. You get a personal good morning, good day and good night, tailored just for you when you visit your account. May god bless Facebook! - Bangambiki Habyarimana

490. God was so tired to be asked all sorts of things all of the time. So he created Google (the name means angel of knowledge). - Bangambiki Habyarimana

491. In the fullness of time, when it pleased God, he sent to the world an angel who would walk humanity around god's universe; his name was NASA (the name means "travelling light"). - Bangambiki Habyarimana

492. Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollah Khomeini convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

493. Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

494. God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level they are equal. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

495. What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

496. It's true not because it's beyond doubt, but because we believe it to be true. We make it true. We are safe as long as no one can disprove us. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

497. There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can phantom. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

498. We need an anthropomorphous god, a god with human features in order to relate to him, but we don't want to make him evil like us, so we create the devil and make him responsible for all the evil in the world, leaving our god completely holy and blameless. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

499. The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die and resurrect. He is responsible of everything good and evil and he is the sustainer of life. If he can save he saves all without distinction. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

500. Some people are bringing the business tricks of scarcity mentality into God's mind. They will tell you that only a few will see God. Why? God's heart is infinitely huge, his arms infinitely large that all of us can have a place in him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

501. God created you without asking, he will take your life away without asking, he will save you without asking. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

502. It looks like God is a scientist. Almost everything can be explained mathematically.

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503. Worlds end every day in this universe, but somehow we think God will save our own somehow. Is this too much faith or wishful thinking? No, it’s hope in action.

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504. There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

565. We are so much enslaved and programmed that  we are unable even to think freely what we want in our own minds. Have you ever began to think about something and you told yourself “it’s sin or evil to think about that?” We are programmed to repel any thought critical to our parents, church, god, government, etc. These authorities have enslaved the very thoughts in our minds so that we can only think as they do.

505. We are neither good nor evil. We are just creatures like others. I am neither good nor evil as a lion, snake, fish, stone or a whole star. We are just creatures. Whatever we call good or evil has a cause like everything else in the universe.

506. Why do we insist on evil human beings do? Isn’t evil evil no matter who does it. Is a lion, a thunderstorm, a hurricane, illness, evil also? Stop criminalizing humanity. We are not evil. We were born good, we just found evil in our way and we are doing our best to deal with it.

507. Some theologians will tell you that God's love is unconditional but...Forget the “but”.  God has no “buts and no ifs”. God loves you unconditionally; his love is eternal and has no limits.

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508. Stop blaming evil on the Devil, blame it on the Creator of everything, if you don't understand, ask Him or at least hope that someday He will reveal it to you.

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509. If there is heaven, atheists will be the first to put their foot there; they take time to find God personally. They risk losing everything when they decide He does not exist. While believers will swallow anything you throw at them to protect their own self-interests to get to heaven at all cost, atheists want a real God and I believe God will not disappoint such a genuine breed of human beings. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

510. Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men.

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511. Most people fear God, they don't love him. In fact they hate Him deep inside for being such a terror. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

512. If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority.

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513. Even if it were scientifically proven that I had free will, I would not believe it. I know I have no free will. It’s not a belief, it’s fact. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

514. Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be.

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515. I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.

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516. Loss of free will is good thing. The heavy weight of responsibility is lifted from your shoulders for the first time,

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517. Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

518. The ancient lawgivers claimed to have received the law from god to reinforce it with his authority. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

519. I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

520. It’s ok to be mad at  god when your life is miserable. It's alright to ask for his help and to be upset when he does not answer you.

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521. Barren women should know that god loves them; either he knew they would die in childbirth or none of their children would be alive. Who knows, it maybe that God wanted to spare them of those hardships, besides they should know that even women who are capable to have children, those children don't live forever, nobody lives forever.

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522. “...now I ask you that marriage be kept holy.  Marriage should be between man and woman, man with man, woman with woman, man with whatever thing or things he likes and woman with whatever things he likes. Those in love should respect and love each other so that god can be honored in all things. I understand that among you there are those who love strife, who despise the marriage between a man and a man and woman with a woman or man or woman with whatever things they like. Now as before, I urge you to respect everyone's choice, respect everyone's sexual orientation for god is a god of freedom not a god of bondage, remember you are not saved by who you marry or by what you marry but by the grace of our lord.”

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523.In Africa we believe in Jesus, but after church we go and see our traditional healer to hear what he has to say about our illness, if he gives us an amulet or tell us what the spirits want, we follow his advice and next week we are into church to testify for the healing god granted us. For us gods help each other for our benefits. You can't sit down just waiting for the help of only one god.

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524. No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

525. Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

526. Atheism is not against god, it is against the religious establishment who use god they have never seen or heard from to establish their influence over the minds of men. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

527. Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification. No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into the mysteries of god and bring about what god thinks of anything. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

528. Pray and hope that god will grant what you ask from him, then help him on, he gave you abilities to that effect. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

529. Eternity is god himself. There was no eternity before god, if such time can be thought of. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

530. Why can a finite being think about eternity? Is it proof that there is a god? - Bangambiki Habyarimana

531. Even if a belief looks false; it is hard to destroy if it claims to provide an answer to an emotional need. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

532. What are religious literature and sacred texts but pious lies? - Bangambiki Habyarimana

533. One man's faith is considered idolatry by another... - Bangambiki Habyarimana

534. Apologetics=faith is weak, lets defend it. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

535. Some preachers serve the faith niche market. You don't need to be a believer in God to serve those who need your services. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

536. If you thought religious persecution is a vestige of the past, think again. Someone near you is being scorned for their faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

537. Quitting the ministry just because you no longer believe is just like quitting your job in a bar because you quit drinking. You are offering services you were trained to offer to an audience eager to receive it. So go on and preach even if you have lost faith. Your work still helps other people. We don't believe in Santa, but we tell the story to our children to make them happy. Would you be a professional Santa story teller and get paid for it? Why don't you do the same preaching the gospel? I believe that in the future more pastors will become atheists but still remain in ministry.  - Bangambiki Habyarimana

538. If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered by the devil incarnated by your former congregation. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

539. It's not an exciting event for one to lose his faith. You realize you are your own savior and the task is daunting. You don't have the means to become your own savior, but you have no choice but to assume the new reality. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

540. Dogma=walls to protect a weak faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

541. Faith is throwing yourself into the arms of the unknown and trusting that you will be safe in the hands of that monster. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

542. After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

543. Forget the creeds, focus on faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

544. There are two competing reasons in our minds: The crude scientific reason and the raging emotional reason. At the end of the day the raging emotional reason sweeps away the crude scientific reason with its facts and proofs. We don't need facts and truths, we need hope, we need consolation, we need a future, and we need eternal life. No facts, proofs and truths against that will prevail on the human psyche. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

545. Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

546. You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.  - Bangambiki Habyarimana

547. The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

548. Just take a name, pass him through the mythos and bam, you have a new hero or god. If you can market him enough, he can be worshipped and supplant the existing gods. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

549. Everything that has a beginning has an end; everything that has no beginning and has no end cannot be found anywhere and does not exist. But wait there is something that has no beginning and no end and yet it exists. Guess what? - Bangambiki Habyarimana

550. Theologian= professional mythmaker and apologist. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

551. Priest= mouthpiece of the gods, sometimes incarnation of the gods, he commands in the name of god and eat in his place. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

552. If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

553. Any attempt to explain what god is and is not is an attempt to insult human intelligence. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

554. Anyone who claims to know who god is or is not, claims to know god's plan for the universe or life after death is a liar. Unfortunately we love liars; we crave their lies and cannot live without them. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

555. Why live by other people's laws? Write your own and live by them. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

556. A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear! - Bangambiki Habyarimana

557. Laying all responsibility on god is a recipe for inaction. Of course you are not responsible for everything, but change and improve on what is humanely possible to do. Don't claim that god is responsible for your poverty or that he will fight for your freedoms. Believing that god wants it that way is giving free reign to everything that oppresses you to continue doing so. Rise and claim your life. Destroy whatever obstacles are on your way to the future. Destroy your enemies. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

558. Can god create something he cannot experience like sin, lust, envy, orgasm, etc.? If he can't how can he create it if he does not know how it feels or affect people? If he can't because he is holy, then he cannot create everything. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

559. If you think that no miracles ever happened to you, remember that every morning when you wake up, you experience a resurrection. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

560. I think about God at every breath I take, I know he can stop it at any time. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

561. It may seem that God is not interested in what happens in his universe. He is a great mathematician and he is busy tweaking his algorithms so that his universe may at last run smoothly. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

562. Putting the center of life beyond life may destroy life only if life is neglected. The beyond must be the continuation of the present and those who are losers in this life must be encouraged to be winners so that the future life may smile on them. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

563. If you kill a god, replace him with another. You cannot live without a god. You will be like an animal if you attempt to do so. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

564. As finite beings, all in our existence can be counted. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

565. Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

566. The hell proponent declares "Hell deniers are evil people, they are afraid their evil will one day catch up with them, they think abolishing hell will make it go away. "- Bangambiki Habyarimana

567. You are not responsible, the devil is not responsible. Nature that made you what you are is responsible, God is responsible. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

568. If we make God responsible for everything that happens in the universe, all the worst criminals become innocent because they did not create themselves and god who had foreknowledge is responsible. He must of necessity be responsible if he is what we claim him to be. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

569. Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

570. "God does not feel pain. When we cry about the pain about the evil in the world he laughs. “A senior member at the world conference against genocide told me one day. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

571. As a hurricane or a virus is not held responsible of the damage he causes, so a human being is not in any way responsible for the damage he causes. Even if he kills millions of people like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, etc. he is not responsible of anything. He is simply a victim of having received such an evil capacity to harm, after all God who knew they would do such crimes allowed them to exist anyway. Go, then, find God and lay responsibility at his feet. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

572. I believe that there is a God but he does not reveal himself personally to people. He reveals himself to everybody by the gaps he left in us that he can only fill. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

573. A true believer in God must come to the inevitable conclusion that the ultimate God that is the unmoved mover of everything is also responsible of everything that happens in the universe he created, being the creator of the good and the evil therein. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

574. People think that they have free will who control none of their vital body functions. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

575. Free will makes us responsible for our own salvation; this takes away the power of God in saving us.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

576. Free will is a social construct and we should not carry that construction into the spiritual realm.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

577. Why dogma? Dogma attempts to protect faith against the free and wandering thoughts of men. Dogma is a clear sign that the thing believed is not strong enough to stand on its own feet and is in danger of being destroyed. Dogma is a protecting wall. It's a way to hold the genie in the bottle. But one day it will escape. Faith in Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Osiris, Isis and myriads of ancient gods has been destroyed. Even faith in any of the current gods will vanish when new gods take shape. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

578. Faith works miracles. Not only religious faith, but any faith applied to what you want to happen. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

579. There is a huge difference between what we hold as truth by faith and truth by fact. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

580. Some pastors preach the faith that they no longer have. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

581. It's heart wrecking to come to the end and lose faith in a long held belief. You feel a void nothing can fill. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

582. When you look at my grave, never say this was a great man. Though I lied, I hate liars. I did evil and good things as everyone does. I hated my enemies, lied, had faith, lost it and regained it. I had hope and despair, I had highs and lows. I thought all kinds of evil thoughts possible; I also thought beautiful and noble things. Sometimes I blasphemed even the gods and doubted everything. Sometimes I had the most fiery faith and the best outlook on life anyone can have. I ascended to heaven and descended to hell at the same time, I know both ends of bliss and utter suffering. Sometimes I was arrogant and considered myself master of the world and my life. How wrong I was. I am lying here and all the earth is crushing my dusty bones.

I can't utter a word, the brain that created my thoughts is no more, the lips that uttered them have long fallen and the voice chords deep inside me have long fallen silent. Even my teeth are falling. The eyes I used to look at the ugly and beautiful, which I used to look and despise, look and lust, have now turned to dust, all is left is the hollow place that held them. All my senses that craved the world are all gone and I am at peace with the world and myself. I don't miss anything for I need nothing. I don't even know whether I am in need of anything. I can no longer, touch and feel, I can no longer see nor smell, I can no longer lust. I can no longer think about what truth is and what is false. I know nothing. I am completely ignorant. Down here, I have discovered that really ignorance is bliss. I am waiting for you my friend. Be naughty as quickly as you can. See all you can see, lust all you can, blaspheme all you can, enjoy all you can, let your appetites go wild, fight all you can, and have all you can. Nothing is yours. All is dreaming my friend. What you are doing up there is just dreaming, so dream to your fill, do whatever you like in your dream. You are about to wake up, and lo, you will be with me and only then, only then, you will be wise. You will find out the futility of everything you had been engaged in. So when anyone looks at my grave let him think about these words and be wise before his time. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

583. Some people don't believe in god, they feign it to conform to society. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

584. Some evil tribal gods made people loathe the idea of god. But the creator of the universe exists, above tribes and nations. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

585. Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

586. The ancient lawgivers claimed to have received the law from god to reinforce it with his authority. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

587. Even if I wanted to disbelieve in Jesus I couldn’t. He was fed to me through my mother’s milk and is part of my genes. Although I might think he is a fabricated myth like others, yet I can’t completely ban from my mind his stature as god. Perhaps there is a place in my mind that needs a god and that place is forever occupied by the image of Jesus. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

588. There is no strong reason a Buddhist should become a Christian or a Christian become a Buddhist. Their religions are the same. They are both polytheistic, their angel messiah was born of a virgin, performed miracles, saves the world from sin, will judge the living and the dead and will come back to rule over an eternal kingdom. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

589. An atheist is a disappointed true believer; he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

590. It may seem that God is not interested in what happens in his universe. He is a great mathematician and he is busy tweaking his algorithms so that his universe may at last run smoothly. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

591. Hell is nothing but a place we wish God may have created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

592. The hell proponent declares "Hell deniers are evil people, they are afraid their evil will one day catch up with them, they think abolishing hell will make it go away."- Bangambiki Habyarimana

593. You are not responsible, the devil is not responsible. Nature that made you what you are is responsible, God is responsible. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

594. It's not wise to make God responsible for everything that happens in the universe, if we do so the worst criminals become innocent because they did no create themselves and god who had foreknowledge is responsible. But if God can't take the blame who will? He must of necessity be responsible. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

595. Solitude is the essence of death. People in solitude have long died before their time. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

596. When I look at the starry sky, I imagine how god could have placed each one on his own star. But he did not do so because he knew we were social and needed each other. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

597. I f you wanted you could declare yourself a god. Really. Governor and sustainer of everything in existence. Blasphemy. If anything went wrong you could say it was your will and that your ways were mysterious or you could hide behind the back of a Satan and lay all the blame on him. Thus people could fear and worship you, afraid that you might do what you were already doing to them. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

598. You can declare yourself a god, and claim many powers to yourself, and brainwash people to worship you. Many people do that and succeed. That's the human condition. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

599. God hasn't revealed himself to anybody yet until me. All the prophets who came before me were but guess experts and they did not hear from him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

600. A spiritual leader is a link between the divinity and the believer. He is the carrier of god's power for the good of the people. Anyone who disobeys him disobeys god. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

601. God is to be worshipped, not investigated. He hates investigators, he hides himself from them and they become atheists. Worshippers know more of him and are satisfied by him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

602. God is not in the temple building, he is everywhere. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

603. Miracles do happen after genuine prayer, never lie to god; you are just lying to yourself. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

604. We are like beggars standing before god. Curiously some of us want to choose what god gives them. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

605. Gospel truth= truth by faith not by fact. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

606. Faith and prayers are processes of programming. You are programmed to look at the world in different way. When the program has finally been installed, the miracle happens. You are a new creature, the old is gone the new is come. You are no longer addicted to drugs, you are no longer quarrelsome at home, you earn your life earnestly etc. You accept your good and bad fortunes as the working of god. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

607. "It is written.” These words carried authority in cultures where writing was the privilege of the most learned. And the common people believed that if it was written it had to be very important and useful. It's no longer the same to us today. We know those Holy Scriptures were not holy at all and were not inspired by the gods. Words in "holy scriptures" are words of the authors and not of god. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

608. Those who fail to find an earthly paradise, hope for a heavenly one. Hope, just hope. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

609. I believe that women have a god gene. Whatever new faith that springs up has women as initial followers. But the leaders of those movements bar women from leadership positions, they believe that if women led, god would be in control and they, the male leaders, loose power.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

610. Are we animals? Yes in every sense of the word. Some people and religions want to kill animal instincts in you. It's not because of love. They want to domesticate you and cut your teeth out and once you are domesticated, you are useless. Fear, hate, love, sexual instincts, doubt, etc. make you capable to exist in a universe in competition. Anyone who tells you that your instincts are evil wants to destroy and enslave you. Look around, who is moralizing, isn't the one wanting to enslave you? Keep intact your animal instincts and sharpen them, they are your links to the world. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

611. The land of Israel may be barren and lacking in natural resources, but what they have created is more than all the gold of the earth. Their god has conquered the hearts of all the peoples of the earth, and all praise the god of the Jews, catapulting them to the prime position of god's people, a title no other nation on earth can claim. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

612. Jew=god, god maker or god creator. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

613. Can anyone devise a mind control system more effective than religion? - Bangambiki Habyarimana

614. Pious lying has since times immemorial been used to control the mind of the masses. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

615. Truth is hated and delusion applauded. Truth is the sword of the poor and delusion the sword of the powerful. The powerful perpetuate delusions to rule over the people. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

616. Is there a better way to make one a monster than the promise of immortality? What can't you do with an army of immortals? - Bangambiki Habyarimana

617. A careful study of the cultural and religious history of the period Christianity was born reveals that it is a mishmash of different religious and philosophical traditions popular at that time. There were other sons of gods and messiahs born of virgins long before Jesus, Messiahs who died and resurrected and performed miracles. The history of Jesus of Nazareth is not different from other mythical stories in other religions. If you can believe in Jesus you can also believe in Buddha or Mithras, there is no big difference. - Bangambiki Habyarimana 

618. Living god: god that has the majority of people believing in him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

619. The magic that make religion stick is that it mixes truth and falsehood, myth and history, facts and outright lies and presents it to the faithful as the ultimate revelation. If you are outraged at its lies, you will be held back by its truths. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

620. We are not in control; there is a power that moves us. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

621. When god decided to create you he didn't ask you and he didn't inform your religious leaders what your life would be. Ignore them and live only for him, who created you, when you are gone he will know what to do with you. It's all up to him, not to what people think. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

622. True religion is letting everybody live in peace in the presence of his own god that created him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

623. There is a holy lie behind every "god told me"- Bangambiki Habyarimana

624. Do you know which religion is true? Mine of course.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

625. All other folks' gods are false, only mine is true. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

626. He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

627. All theologies will come to an end when finally god reveals through me who he really is and what he truly wants. This will happen long after I die and come back to the world as the promised messiah and savior. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

628. Why do the visions of heaven differ from religion to religion? It's because different gods have different heavens. Mine for examples stipulates that there will be virgins for upright men, beer and loud music. What about yours?- Bangambiki Habyarimana

629. We live by faith. If we had no faith no one would dare face a new day. It's faith that helps us destroy our daily goliaths. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

630. You cannot prove wrong spiritual assertions; you cannot eradicate religion - Bangambiki Habyarimana

631. Some religious text is called holy writ, another the devils work. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

632. God has called me to start a new religion. The truest since the foundation of the world. Anyone who follows my teaching God will grant him both earthly and eternal bliss. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

633. Some religions foment divisions among the human race. Their books abound with words like pagan, strangers, heathen, gentiles, the lost, etc. that are applied to members of the human race that are not members of their sect. Once you degrade a person to the level of enemy you give yourself the right to kill him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

634. Does a religion of peace exist? I believe there is no religion of peace in existence. Religion is all about me, my group and my world view which is in constant conflict with other worldviews and we are competing for space and influence, all coups are allowed in that confrontation because the looser risks to be wipe out of the map. We have names by which we designate those who are outside our group who are our legitimate targets for annihilation; they are enemies, heathens, pagans, kaffirs, strangers and the lost. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

635. I thought Christianity was a monotheistic religion. No more. Christianity is pure paganism. Christians worship not only a trinity, a pantheon of three gods, but they also have a fourth god, the Virgin Mary, the mother of god, a fifth Satan, responsible for all the evil in the world and a multitude of worshipped saints and angels. There is no difference with what pagans did and do. The only monotheistic religions are Islam and Judaism. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

636. Why did a religion fail? It was too honest. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

637. Hell is free, but heaven has price. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

638. Dante entered hell and described it; I have no business with hell. I want heaven, and I want everybody there. I want to go there and describe everything I see there, come back and promise it to everybody, if anybody indeed still wants to be there forever. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

639. But it's all about promises. Why promise people hell instead of heaven? Is heaven too small for all of us or is it simply our evil nature that only wants the good for us and our tribe and would like the rest to be destroyed? I hate that. Here it is. On my authority, as the son of god and messiah, from this day, I abolish hell and declare free any soul that may have been imprisoned there. There is no more hell and there is only heaven and everybody shall inherit it. All sins will be forgiven at death. Let the angels say amen! - Bangambiki Habyarimana

640. All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

641. Why does a preacher burn with anger when someone fails to believe and leave church as if it was his fault to lack faith? The preacher is desperate not because a soul is leaving the Lord but because a potential financial contributor leaves church. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

642. God depends on believers to propagate and defend his name. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

643. Priest=messenger of the gods. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

644. Believer in religion=sheep led to the slaughterhouse. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

645. Christian= a new pagan. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

646. Muslim=member of the religion of peace. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

647. Sin=loved by priests to control devotees. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

648. Devotee=one who swallows anything thrown on his throat. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

649. Trinity= a pantheon of three gods worship by Christians and other pagans. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

650. Saint=lives according to the faith, can commit crimes against unbelievers. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

651. Pope=a man who believes, according to “sacred texts”, that he represents god on earth. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

652. Mohamed= I can do better. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

653. Jew=god maker. Jesus failed to meet the standards. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

654. HELL= a place for men like me. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

655. Heaven=harp on for eternity. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

656. Angels=mythical creatures that served the gods. Some people believe they are real. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

657. God= an old mathematician who created the world. He is at a loss with his equations as the world seems out of control. Men are trying to learn his blueprint in order to help him run the universe. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

658. Jesus= according to mythology, a Galilean who claimed to be god and savior of humanity. It is rumored that the romans and the Jewish establishment killed him in order to avert sedition. He is said to have risen and will come back to rule on earth. This story stroke the chord with what men wanted to hear and became worshipped like a god. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

659. Some theologians teach that salvation is unconditional but. . . which means it's not unconditional in which case Jesus died in vain (for those who believe in him). - Bangambiki Habyarimana

660. Islam= a religion of peace. Believers are peace loving people who treat well women, atheists and non-Muslims in general. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

661. Judaism=the religion of the chosen people, the truest of all religions. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

662. Palestinians=ancient philistines. The hostility between them and Israel is as fierce as it was three thousand years ago. God gave their land to Israel as they came out of Egypt but they resisted extermination and refused to die to this day. They are a thorn in Israel's side. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

663. Virgin Mary: Humble maid who bore Jesus, she has since been elevated to fourth person in the quadrinity as mother of God who intercedes for us against the wrath of God. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

664. Pilate: the only genuine person in the new testament according to Nietzsche. He asked "What is truth?" A question everyone has been asking since the dawn of history. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

665. Crusade: a holy war against the enemies of god, an attempt to send to hell those who oppose him. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

666. Jihad=crusade. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

667. Inquisition=tribunal to prosecute and punish those who oppose "truth" , that is things believed in my sect. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

668. “I am co-eternal with the father, before everything was created, I am. I created everything that exists with my word.” People say these things and we worship them. Why not me, why not you. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

669. Can anyone claim that he is a god or a son of god? Yes, he can even found a religion and have followers. He will even find people to die for him spreading his religion. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

670. I was born to a virgin named Laila as prophesied in the books of the prophets of the People of Mahaland, my star was seen in the east, and holy men came to see me and angel sang in heaven, King Nook knew of my birth and wanted to kill me, we fled to the west, and came back when he was dead. I preached the kingdom of heaven, had followers, was arrested for blasphemy and hung, and the sun stopped shining and there were earthquake, I was buried and resurrected on the third day and appeared to my followers, I will come back to establish my kingdom in the last days. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

671. Unbelievers= people who don't believe in my religion, atheists. If they have their religions, they also call me an unbeliever and an atheist. I pray to them that they may be saved as they pray for me. When we are angry at each other we call each other heathens and we may fight a holy war if necessary. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

672. The religionist says "This world is made of two kinds of people: those who believe in my god and those who don't. I am condemned to live with them but will never see them anywhere after this life, they'll all burn in hell. "- Bangambiki Habyarimana

673. All religions are the same; they try to cater to the spiritual needs of individuals

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

674. I believe God is not interested in revealing himself beyond doubt; it seems to me he did not intend to. Maybe entertaining doubts in us and making us keep guessing serves his purposes. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

675. As long as we cannot explain the origin of all things beyond all doubt, God will have to exist. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

676. Even if the origin of everything was explained, no one will be capable of explaining the origin of God. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

677. Some scientists believe that the universe originated in the big bang 13 billion years ago, they can't tell us what caused the big bang or what was there shortly before the big bang. And some scientist deny that something caused it, they are adamant it caused itself. This is not different from any religious belief. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

678. Why does god let people worship idols for millennia without revealing himself to them?

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

679. If religions are human inventions and men cannot live without them, good religions that contribute to the happiness and progress of men must be invented and those that cause suffering to men destroyed.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

680. What is the true religion? The one that have powerful believers who can spread it, force it on others by all means and defend it.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

681. You cannot have a religion that pleases everybody, some will like it others will hate it. - Bangambiki Habyarimana

682. Comparative religion destroys any claim any religion may make that it is the only one that is true.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

683. If you no longer believe in the myth your culture believes in, you have cut yourself from society. Therefore if you have arrived at a stage where you no longer believe in your culture’s myths, hold them only as cultural symbolism without reality behind them and enjoy them as that. Don't believe but make believe.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

684. Humans have a myth gene. We simply want to believe in things. We feel empty if we don't.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

685. It doesn't matter whether there is a lion behind the bush, what matters is that I believe that there is a lion behind the bush. The fear that belief instills in me makes me run away from the bush, the heart pounding that the lion may devour me.

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

686. When I look at the multitude of the gods in the past held in esteem by great civilizations now cast aside as pagan idols, I wonder whether the gods we hold in high esteem today won't suffer the same fate tomorrow.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

687. A physical wound may heal, but a spiritual one may last forever

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

688. A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

689. Endeavour to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the New Jerusalem

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

690. Paradise is the heart of the people who think well of you because of your exemplary life. Hell is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

691. A saint is not a person who does not sin; but a sinner who never stops doing good

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

692. Religion is born from the need for safety and protection. People and states can provide this to a certain extent but they are themselves at times vulnerable themselves. That's why we believe in gods with unlimited resources to protect us.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

693. Some intelligent people have managed to create their own paradise by preaching about it

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

694. There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving mother

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

She takes care of you when you are still in her womb.

She nurtures you after you are born.

She hurts when you fall,

She celebrates when you make your first steps.

She is the only person who truly genuinely cares about you.

She loves you as she loves herself.

Her heart is your true paradise.

695. We are masters but we are afraid of the ensuing responsibility; that's why we prefer to remain slaves. Only if we dared to rise up to the challenge and assume our divinity, we could perform most of the miracles we pray for.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

696. At the end of faith there is always some calamity

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

We believe and we hold our beliefs to be true until the day we discover that we were duped. The end of belief is a challenging moment. You feel lonely, unconnected, with nothing to hung on. Your life becomes empty and aimless. You curse the day doubt entered your mind but you cannot undo the damage. You need to find a new direction for your life, something new to hang your hope on to continue living. And that thing is you.

697. Stop searching for god in the farthest corners of the universe. He is in you. You are it

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

698. If lying is a sin, then living is also a sin, for life is a lie

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes things morality labels as sin are simply coping mechanism behaviors nature has endowed us to use in some particular difficult situations, like lying to escape danger, masturbating where no opposite sex partner is available, deceit in war, lies in politics and propaganda, stealing because of hunger, etc. But some insist you must tell the truth and face torture or murder even if a lie could have saved you; you should accept to die of hunger by the side of someone’s fruit garden, must reveal your war strategies to your enemies whom you have to love, must tell the truth about a terrible incident that killed many people, which if people knew about it, would rise in riot and overthrow the government. That's the ideal world according to morality. I think the best morality is doing what is natural, what will achieve good no matter the means used. Everything should be considered in context rather as general principles. Things must be done according to necessity not according preordained precepts that aim at controlling and weakening the otherwise resourceful human mind.

699. Today’s clever religions are teaching men positive thinking; to be partners with god in the realization of their dreams instead of sitting passively and waiting gods to perform miracles. And miracles are happening. What a clever way to prop up lame gods and keep them still relevant in people's lives. Gods need good ambassadors who keep saying that all is well even though they know the regime has already crumbled

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

700. Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what great achievement they have realized!

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

You are what you believe. And great men of old and of today knew the full importance of believing they were great and making others believe in their imagined greatness. Some of these men went to great length and declared themselves gods and their statues were raised across their dominions. They believed they were gods and their people believed they were god and worshiped and obeyed them. Other heroes of old believed they were the sons of gods and goddesses and they achieved great things that we remember to this day. What you believe determines the course of your life. Many people are afraid to believe they are gods, but they would rather worship a wooden calf, or cat or whatever idol they prefer. But they would never imagine themselves as gods. In some cultures, people believe they are gods or sons of gods and believe they have divine powers to do the impossible like predict the future, do magic, talk to spirits etc. People believe in them and worship them. They end up becoming what they believe they are. Believing you are a god does not mean to seek worship from fellow men, though some men achieve this as a byproduct, it means life must submit to you, your dreams, your obstacles must submit to you and worship you because you are a god of your world: You are unique in nature. Though with some limitations, you have to navigate around in this life alone. You are the master of what you found in nature. You get to decide what is good and bad for you. If you can act like a god in your life, you will see how your life will change. Stop considering yourself as a victim on the receiving end; consider yourself as commander of your life and all will obey you, even your problems and difficulties will kneel before you.

701. Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you believe in what they tell you, they take your brain out, and replace it with their own brain. You are no longer you. You are laser-guided to do whatever they want you to do. If they tell you love your enemy, you will love him, if they change the doctrine to kill your enemy you will kill him. If they tell you the man who does not share your religion is an enemy and must be killed you will kill him. If they tell you your race is superior to other races, you will believe it, if they tell you were born a slave and you must dedicate your life to becoming an exemplary slave, you will believe them. You will do everything because you are no longer you. It’s difficult to know if we are automatically guided or not, most of the time the man who tries to wake us up, we consider him as an enemy. But again everyone is run by one or other ideology, and everyone believes his ideology is the best one, that’s why our wars never seem to have an end in sight.

702. I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

703. Many people are praying and their prayers go unanswered. Imagine if you decided to step in your role as a god and resolved to answer them. How many prayers would be answered? But no, you also keep your face hidden like other careless gods and keep your ears closed to their clamor.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

704. If everyone became a little god in his own little world and worked to make his little world a better place, the world becoming paradise on earth would cease to be a myth

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

705. “Faith is ignoring facts and believing in what we wish were facts”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

706. “And in his image, man created god”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is a dilemma about who created who between god and man. Some insist god created man, others that man created god, and still others insist that things came into existence by chance. I believe that man created god and in his image he created him. Look at all the gods of the world, which one hasn’t had human characteristics? Some gods are even worse in character than men. They do unimaginable evil deeds to further their glories. I am sorry men have created evil gods that oppress and intimidate them. I wish men had created gods that helped us and encouraged us in this our troubled life on earth, instead of creating hells for us as if this life was not hard enough. The next time someone gets inspired to create god, he should think about creating a good god that genuinely love his people and keeps his promises, not only in holy books but in actuality.

707. “God's Love is unconditional. He loves you because he created you. You can be sure, His love is eternally granted.”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

708. “To hell with hell, God is Love”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

709. “Faith is knowledge to the believer”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

710. “God is a name behind which you put the best of yourself or the worst”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

711. “Don't look for the devil outside, look inside and exorcise yourself”

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

712. Theologian: A man who analyzes the life of a black cat in a black room where there is no black cat

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

713. Apologetics is reason flying to the rescue of faith

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

714. You will not get the miracle you pray for until you realize you are the god to whom your prayers are directed

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you pray for a miracle you express what you would like to happen. You believe it can happen but you think you don’t have the power to make it happen, so you pray and wait. This is the first step of faith, of weak faith. The next stage which can only be attained by strong faith is to get up and work towards the realization of your miracle. You realize that you are a partner with god and that you need to do your share of the work as Tom Hanks found out when he said “From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.”

715. Praying with excessive noise is proof the worshipper believes god is far away and needs to shout to reach his ears. It’s the manifestation of ignorant faith which completely trusts and never questions.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

716. Even gods are following trends. They are afraid to be dumped by their creators

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

717. Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

718. The merchants of hope will never go out of business

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are afraid and we are fragile. We need someone to sooth our fears, to sing lullabies to us to stop crying, to tell us beautiful stories to fall asleep. Anyone who manages that, we need him the next morning and we will need him forever. That’s why these men who infuse hope and enthusiasm in us will be forever in need

719. Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Gods have no existence out of the minds of their believers. They only exist when believers decide that they exist. When believers lose faith in them either because of their unfulfilled promises or because new and more powerful gods are revealed, they shed their old gods, destroy their temples, and hang anyone who continues to worship those abominations. The next day you hear a god boast that he is powerful, know that it still has popular following. As that popularity wanes and eventually ends, it will join its ancestors in the museum of ancient gods and divinities.

720. I am not afraid of what god can do to me. He is already doing it

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

721. If you try to kill god, he will not kill you back. He knows you can't kill him. You will be killed by terrorists who believe it's their duty to avenge him

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

722. My god is always against my enemies, my enemies are miscreants, and they don't have a god. Not my opinions but the opinions of every kind of religious extremists and fanatics.

 ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

723. Don't be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one you worship

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

724. Gods can only keep their promises in books

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

725. Nobody killed gods; nobody had the intention of killing them. People ignored them as they failed to meet their aspirations.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

726. When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

We all need a protector, someone we can trust to defend us. First our parents filled that role, and then when we grew up, they handed us over to gods. Whatever your protector is, it is terrifying when he leaves you. You get the feeling that life will never be the same again. It’s as if heaven was falling on your head. After the initial shock you learn to be self-reliant, you learn to cater for yourself. Through trials and errors you succeed to create your own way. You need to realize you have your own life to live and your own battles to fight. You need to realize you can’t be carried forever on other people’s shoulders and that it’s time to walk on your own feet and achieve your own protection. You need to be responsible for your own life.

727. For god's sake, if you want to create a god, create a good one

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

728. Every religion is atheistic in the eyes of another religion

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

729. Gods are like culture, the most known and powerful are those believed by powerful nations

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Gods’ fates are intimately linked to those of their believers. If their believers are rich and famous, the gods they believe in benefit from the exposure. But if their believers are a backward tribe, their gods get destroyed by “civilization”. The Amazonian Indians have gods, the Africans have gods, the aboriginal have gods, but they are afraid to get out. They are considered pagan idols by the prevailing culture. Even their modest worship places have been destroyed and replaced by the temples of the dominating divinities. Every time a culture is destroyed, its gods don’t survive the onslaught.

730. Governments like religion only when it keeps the people humble and ready to obey blindly. It turns against religion that opens the people's eyes to its abuses

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

731. Absolute, unchallenged power can only be spiritual. You ask the people to obey an invisible god, who only speaks in books. You threaten them with hellfire if they don’t comply.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

732. If you want unchallenged power start a church or a religious movement.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

733. Truth is hidden because if the people knew it, it would free them and hang their oppressors

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

734. I believe in prophets who inspire me to reach my goals than those who promise me future bliss

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

735. False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

736. If you want to kill a god, create another in its place

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

737. True prophet: A prophet whose god has attained celebrity status

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

738. Life is stripped of its flavor when folks are told that hell is waiting for them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

739. No wonder people who believe in hell endeavor to establish it on earth

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

740. The teachers of paradise make life worth living and suffering bearable

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

741. The teachers of hell should be sent there first to be able to describe it accurately

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

742. Hell! Don't teach about hell

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

743. If god created hell, who can blame his followers for trying to establish it on earth

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

744. Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

745. Everyone kills god when he stops believing in him

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you stop believing in god you are out of his universe and he is out of your universe. For you he does not exist. He may still exist in the minds of those who believe in him but in your mind he is nonexistent.

746. Many people don't know they have stopped believing in god. Their neighbors do

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

747. People don't need holy, far away gods. They need god's that can help them overcome their problems in their real life. That's why anyone who creates such a god becomes an overnight success

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

748. Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but thrives because of our natural instincts.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

If we were to lose our natural instincts there would be no religion because religion itself comes from our natural need to believe in something greater than us to protect us against the dangers of life. If we stopped to sin (to do what we love to do) much of the preaching would be over

749. If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each is trying to create his own heaven by creating hell for others.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

750. Isn’t time the true god? It makes and breaks.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

751. Even if god was proved beyond doubt that he did not exist. We would still believe in him. We don't need true facts, we need true emotions.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

752. God is what you imagine him to be.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Everyone has his own god. As we are different, so are the gods we worship. Our minds think differently. We imagine god differently. Some imagine god as a feared dictator, others as a loving father; some see him as a miracle worker others as helping miracles to happen; some believe they will see him when they die, others that no one will ever see him. Some believe their parents are gods, others the highest mountain in their province. Others believe there are their own gods; still others believe god is not yet born, etc. As for me I believe I am god in a pantheon of other gods.

753. There are no true religions, no false religions, belief is individual

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

754. What a better way to become immortal than creating a god?

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

755. Gods are like children: everything must be done for them. Even the book detailing their divine deeds must be written for them. They can only do good. When something evil happens, blame the devil

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

756. God does not take sides. He is always on the side of the winner

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

God is a winner and he likes winners. Losers are cursed. As if that was not sufficient, he has created a special place for them, the place of the doomed. God does not take sides in wars. He stands aloft and watches the game and when it’s is over he distributes the medals. Winner gets all and loser is destroyed.

757. Can anyone be anything without a university degree? It seems the answer is yes. The great prophets of old, who communicated with gods, did not have university degrees.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

758. Keep cool. God, I mean the government, is watching over you

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

759. Nietzsche did not kill god, he simply observed the facts

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

760. A saint is a former sinner, a sinner is saint material

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

761. I believe god is proud of how man has evolved to the point of almost becoming a god himself.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

762. God is good only when everything is good. When things fall apart, he quits the scene and the devil take charge; god reappears when things “miraculously fall in order” again.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

763. Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

764. I love theologians; they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

765. If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilege

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

766. You don't need Satan to explain the evil in the world. He is not the creator of the universe

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

You don’t need a satanic church to worship Satan, any regular church worships him. I don’t segregate churches; I attend whatever church I want. In some churches, the name of Satan is more spoken than the name of God or Jesus. He is the preferred scapegoat. He is the one who does all the evil in the world. He is the one who causes your tire to burst, who causes you to insult your friend, he causes wars and starvation, he causes the economic slowdown, he is blamed for climate change, everything.

God is holy, he does nothing evil. It seems the devil created himself. Some believe he was good but chose to rebel. Now it seems god was incapable to control the rebellion. But no, there is time for everything, Satan is being hunted down and some time in billions of years he will be caught and punished, in the meantime he will be sharing glory with god for doing all the evil.

767. I don't like dogmas; i don't want to be kept in a box

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

768. Don't remove mountains, go around them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

769. Science does not need religion. Religion does not need science. And the twain shall never meet

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

770. For good people, religion means peace with everybody, for bad guys a tribe to protect

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

771. People create things and believe in them

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

772. I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

Someone once said that ignorance is bliss. Simple people never trouble themselves by inquiring into the mysteries of life. They have no business in questioning life about what it gives or withhold from them. They simply live, one day at a time. They don’t analyze love, they feel it, and when it’s over, they know it’s over and they start again. They don’t question the existence of god, they believe in him. It’s not their business to probe into his origins. They know everything is created by something else, therefore for them it makes sense that god created everything. They believe in him. They don’t have to see him. The book says he is invisible and their mother said so. So they believe and are transported by faith in church as the spirit fills them and speak in tongues. They mourn their dead and hope to meet them in afterlife. This fortifies them and they continue to live until their day comes.

This simplicity of life evades completely the skeptic who is like an engineer who tries to reverse engineer everything. As the skeptic dissects life, he finds it ugly and loses interest in living it. He discovers he can’t understand everything and he spends the rest of his life unable to achieve reasonable happiness which can only be the prize of the simple minded

773. You are what you believe

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

What do you believe? Do you believe you are going to hell? Do you believe you are a sinner? Do you believe in the original sin? Do you believe you were born into a poor family and that poverty is your lot? Do you believe everybody hates you? Do you believe you are disadvantaged because of your skin color, race or religion? Do you believe you were born into a lower caste? Do you believe you are being persecuted? Do you consider yourself a victim? Do you consider your life useless? Do you believe it would be better if you were not born?

Or

You believe you are going to paradise; you are a holy priesthood, a saint of god. You believe that even if you were born into a poor family, you are the one who is going to break the chains of poverty and be the first one to usher your family into prosperity. You believe the world loves you and want to see you around to help. You believe you are privileged to belong to a different religion, race, or skin color. You believe that even if you were born into a lower caste, you can rise above it and achieve your goals in life and conquer your respectability. You believe the caste system is unjust and you want to campaign to abolish it and free your people from injustices even if it means facing danger and even death. You consider your life as gold. You thank god you were given the opportunity to be born and make wonders on earth by changing your life and the lives of other human beings

What you believe will shape what you become in life. If you believe positively you will succeed in life; if you believe negatively, you will lose and cause harm to yourself and others.

774. Billions of years before I was born I did not need religion, why should I need it, billions of years after I cease to exist

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

775. There is no agony greater than not knowing where you come from and where you are going

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

776. The Bible is man in a nutshell. Good and evil live side by side in the same book. That's why it's cherished. The good find in it encouragement, the weak solace, the evil, justification.

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

777. It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

778. Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

779. A bishop is a man who has two shops

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

780. The greatest law is: love yourself first

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

781. You believe faith heals? It's not lack of faith to take some medicines to help things along

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

782. Faith is contagious, so is the lack of it

― Bangambiki Habyarimana

783. Some intelligent men have managed to sneak into God's government by preaching about him

― Bangambiki Habyarimanawed