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61 " The thought sounds suspiciously like a hope. "
― Chris Dietzel , The Hauntings of Playing God (The Great De-evolution)
62 " Maybe life is about how long it takes you to find your true calling, and all the good you can do after you discover it. "
63 " None of them think to themselves that they belong to the correct religion, and none of them pity the rest for not being so fortunate. None of them think they are going to heaven while the others will be excluded just because they belong to a different religion. "
64 " The clock says it’s four in the morning, but it’s better to start moving than to stay in bed and think about never waking up again. "
65 " She has seen more death than a black-masked hangman or an executioner’s axe. "
66 " Was that where the very first belief in an afterlife came from, from someone unhappy with their place in the world? If that is what the belief was founded on, she thinks, the likelihood of going to heaven doesn’t look very promising—things do not exist merely because you wish them to. "
67 " No god is that spiteful. "
68 " Maybe life is all about how you feel at the end of each day versus how you felt when you first woke up. "
69 " Maybe, Morgan thinks, life is about the first time you tell yourself everything will be okay and the last time you are able to convince yourself of that lie. "
70 " Time, in terms of waking up each day, is nothing more than death itself. "
71 " But just because something is repeated for a long time doesn’t make it true. Mere repetition determined what those men believed. Nothing else. "
72 " A God capable of creating our world would not be petty enough to send you to an eternity of flames just because you didn’t praise him enough. She believes God couldn’t care less if you believe in him or not. God doesn’t care which religion you follow. All God cares about is that you try to have a good life, be nice to the people around you, and maybe appreciate the beauty that surrounds us all. Enjoy life as much as you can. "
73 " Does needing some bit of proof make her a heathen? "
74 " If asking for a sign is asking for too much, how else are you supposed to truly believe on your own? The only other way is to believe what you are told, and that hasn’t worked for her. "
75 " Of course, this is what some people think God is, not a white guy with a white beard and white robes, but the energy that controls and binds all things. This is a nice thing to think about. "
76 " Not believing in something just because you are stubborn is just as bad as believing in something for no better reason than you are told to believe it. There has to be a middle ground. "
77 " Why would I waste any time thinking about God if this is what He does to us? "
78 " How could God be good if he allowed millions to die of starvation and genocide in Africa, allowed war to ravage the earth, without interruption, for hundreds of years, and created diseases that would destroy good-hearted people while avoiding the wicked? "
79 " There won’t be a traditional heaven or hell, but those places always seemed a little too human for her—places created by the limitations of the men who wrote them into the Bible, not a place that a god capable of creating our world and the life in it would actually make. "