"Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe."

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Source : "Quote of the Week: William James on Theology". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. June 04, 2012.

Jerry A. Coyne

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“Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.”
“As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!”
“We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers”
“The automatic Kalashnikov is a tool, an implement designed for ordinary men, without much training or undue complications, to kill other men, and to be used in the conditions in which wars are often fought. But it's only a tool, and while its ready availability in many unstable lands can be seen as kindling violence, this is not simply because of the weapon's qualities themselves. It is because of the quantities of the weapons that have been made.”

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“I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.”
“My relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important thing in my life. So any time I get an opportunity to tell Him that I love Him or given opportunity to shout Him out on national TV, I'm gonna take that opportunity. And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with Him that I want to give Him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity.”
“I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning,of rain and wind,of the galaxies,of the suns and the starsand the void through which they travel.The essence of nature,eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear,known as the great illusion time,and the all-prevailing atmosphere.And now you know my background.”
“I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do”

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