On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. An omnipotent, all- knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. Miracles do not happen.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Mark Twain Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. I don't want to be immortal through my work. I want to be immortal through not dying. Woody Allen Christ died for our sins. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius.