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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

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Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

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...You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite. I listen to you, and I think, his god is too small! One paltry planet, a few thousand years — hardly worth the attention of a minor deity, much less the Creator of the universe.

... The power which the common people ascribe to God is not only a human power (which shows that they look upon God as a man, or as being like a man), but that it also involves weakness.

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.” –ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, 1973

People make me a superstar and treat me that way. But I am not a superstar. I just regard myself as an ordinary God-fearing person.

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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

I sometimes think God is a s--t — and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s--t.

People may love a God of their own imaginations, when they are far from loving such a God as reigns in heaven.

We are wont foolishly to think that the creed which a man professes is more significant than the fact he is.

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