WEll, Sidney, not everyone is a freak religious fanatic like you.
Oh. Your hero Asimov was an atheist. You didn't figure this out?
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Heinlein is believed to have been, though he never said so.
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Some quotes from him, however:
Men rarely (if ever) managed to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
-- Robert A Heinlein: Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love, quoted in McWilliams, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, p. 375, from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
-- Robert A Heinlein: Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love, quoted from Famous Dead Non-theists
The most preposterous notion that H sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
-- Robert A Heinlein: Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love, quoted from Famous Dead Non-theists
< Lazarus Long was obviously an atheist or agnostic. I'll plead to agnostic. >
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
-- Robert A Heinlein: Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love, submitted by Bill Frampton
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there.
-- Robert A Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything ... just give him time to rationalize it.
-- Robert A Heinlein, from Job: A Comedy of Justice, submitted by Bill Frampton, citation thanks to James A Brown
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance -- self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.
-- Robert A Heinlein, from Laurence J Peter, in, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time, quoted from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
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I had always heard Heinlein was a homosexual
I rather suspect his wife Virginia would happily sue you for slander for that comment. The question has been whether an alias can be slandered, not whether an alias can slander. Heinlein, in fact, has been accused of being homophobic. |
