Evil God Quotes:

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

- Epicurus

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Atheist, Anti Religious, Theism

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

- Steven Weinberg

source: "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

topic: God, Atheist, People, Anti Religious, Theism

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Atheism, Wickedness, Would Be, Anti Religious, Voluptuous

Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Heart, Men, Light, God Does Exist, Evil God

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Atheist, Hate, Jealous, Anti Religious, Organized Religion

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

- Thomas Paine

source: Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

topic: Bible, Religious, Faith Religion, Called By God, Voluptuous

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Evil, Silence, Faces, Evil God

This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.

- David Platt

topic: Jesus, Hate, Heart, Jesus Words, Evil God

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

- Harold S. Kushner

source: Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin

topic: Perfect, People, Forgiving, Why Things Happen, When Bad Things Happen

Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Children, Revenge, Dark, Evil God

We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.

- Scott Cunningham

source: Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.17, Llewellyn Worldwide

topic: Fate, Creating, Evil, Evil God, Creating Our Future

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.362, Macmillan

topic: Evil, Darkness, Dull, Evil God

I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

topic: Mean, Evil, Speed, Evil God

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: "The Triumph of Easter" by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1938.

topic: Jesus, Evil, Rose, Evil God

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

- Pope Francis

topic: Giving Up, Evil, Faces, Evil God

Brother dear,” I said, “did your soul leave your body while Amos was talking, or did you actually hear him? Egyptian gods real. Red Lord bad. Red Lord’s birthday: very soon, very bad. House of Life: fussy magicians who hate our family because dad was a bit of a rebel, whom you could take a lesson from. Which leaves us—just us—with Dad missing, an evil god about to destroy the world, and an uncle who just jumped off the building—and I can’t actually blame him.” I took a breath. [Yes, Carter, I do have to breathe occasionally.]

- Rick Riordan

topic: Brother, Uncles, Dad, Evil God, Fussy