All ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Quotes about “Religion”

“One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.”
“I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.”
“Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.”
“But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.”
“God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.”
“Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.”
“He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.”
“The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.”
“If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!”

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