pk Quotes on gods, God, & god

god is to everything what music is to sound.

god is a principle more than a principal.

"God is dead." And we killed him.

Knatz.com put pk quotes in blue. The quotes here are all pk, so regular black should do.

God can communicate with humans only where what God has to say coincides with what humans are willing to hear.

god is always a meta-reference.

I know that God doesn't exist
(not in the form the churches worship)
because he himself told me so.

In the inevitable long-run "fight" between God, the-Magician-Creator, the jealous and vengeful owner of the universe, and god the-truth, god-the-way-of-things, who will win? Why god-the-way-of-things of course.

All talk of god is blasphemy. The Bible is blasphemy. god is not something that can be talked.

God would weep if he had any tears.

Satan is God's prophylactic glove: so God doesn't have to touch diseased souls with his bare hands.

God isn't allowed to learn anything from experience.

Are promises made to God binding? once you no longer mean the same thing by God? They are if you really made them to yourself (so long as your self is bred from the actual universe).

The Band of Brothers look up to their fake God, and look down on the real god.

Could God have sent Jesus to a society that didn't have capital punishment? We owe salvation to being unworthy of it.

Even if the universe were created (and certain irreducible complexities certainly seem to have been designed), it does not follow that the creation cannot be wiser than the creator (except in the old simple-minded models).

god doesn't owe me any reward. god has already paid me. god paid me in advance.

God may be infinite: there could still be even greater infinities that God is deaf, blind, and dumb to.
The greatest genius is stupid about more things than she's smart about.
god now, god spans all infinities.

God is the scarecrow wielded by the kleptocrat. Therefore, there is no God. Therefore, there is no god. Therefore, there is no truth. Therefore, there is no environmental check on inefficiency, stupidity, dishonesty ...

god is a symbol (and black box) for what we have no satisfactory explanation for
God, capital G, is a synecdoche (a misdirection too) for the culture at largeCapital G God is an inversion: the culture says that God controls it but of course the truth is the reverse: if God doesn't precisely reflect the culture, it will take a revolution for one divine word to get in edgewise.
God is dead: long live god.

god is whatever's what about whatever is.
What we can conceive of god is
whatever is just slightly over the horizon.

God's messages are constant; but the damned won't hear them.

God's revenge on man is to put shim in hell
Man's revenge on God is not to notice.

God's messages come from the stable, not the cathedral.

God is worshipped indoors, with the windows shut, so the monos won't heard the host of gods laughing.

I don't want any Devil snatching the damned into hell any more than I want God to force the damned into hell. No, I want the Truth to persuade the damned that they forced all of us into hell a long time ago.

If God made man in His image then maybe God isn't any too bright either.

I've never doubted god; it's the church I don't believe in.

Not: There is no God; Rather: You've got god all wrong.

People believe that superstition, the right ritual, will give them the magic to control the god who controls their luck. No number of stories, no plots illustrating the opposite, can affect that belief. People's beliefs are connected neither to experience nor to literature. Politicians join God in understanding this. No matter what you do to people, people will still believe that they've got pie coming: and that they're doing their best magic to make it come.

There doesn't have to be any bogeyman in the clouds: or on the other side of the two-way mirror; all there has to be is a real universe: one not party to our deceptions.

To know ourselves, we must study to know god.

God (uppercase) is the god who agrees to be fooled by the particular culture of the symbol user.Adam, Eve ... Rebekah, Jacob ... can fool God; Ra, Mithras, Odin ... can't.
And pk doesn't want to.We killed God: and still kill him. We railroaded Jesus: and still railroad his brothers. But it's OK: we lit a candle.

Were the day to arrive that a church could introduce its god to all, could demonstrate that sHe really does create, control, infuse, or own the universe, could pass muster before the Amazing Randi and the investigators of The Skeptical Inquirer, why then the-state-that-knew-best would want to merge with the-church-of-the-true-god. Wouldn't it? shouldn't the family too merge right in? Wouldn't we then be one family? Or no family: no family needed? Wouldn't god or his true priests then be the best ones to train the young? Hell, what would we need young for? We'd already be in heaven. Life would have found its goal. deChardin's omega point being reached, striving should cease.

We use God in lots of ways. A few Christians let God tell them to turn the other cheek; but the team of Christians use God as a misdirection: like the false arm in the real sling. People spouting morality are the dummy arm; the real arm is out grabbing.

Jesus may lose any appearance in a Jewish )tolerated-by-Rome) court. Rome (and the half-puppet Jews) may lose every appearance in Jesus' court. But I suspect that winning and losing count for little in god's court. Uh, god doesn't hold court.

Churches use God to lead everyone by the nose: sometimes successfully. pk's god tries to lead by imagining the Gestalt of things: and fails.

With regard to the God of magic, I am an atheist: with regard to the god of order, I am a believer.

God helps man by putting what he needs where he'll steal it.

What God is is none of our affair.

The more kleptocratic the culture, the more omnipotent their god will be.
Certainty is an eidolon of kleptocracy.

pk expects God to take revenge for him. If not God, then nature, god, truth ...
If not even truth does, then I'm just shit out of luck.

Proof positive that the gods are mythical and not actual is that Diana is still a virgin after millennia.

god's business is god's business, incommunicable by or to man. The Church is just a con.

"God" is our name, in English, for an entity we conceive of which is capable of "knowing" something we call "the truth."
"Truth: is our word, in English, for a quality that you nor I are reliable about, but that "God" will be absolutely reliable about.
I can live without God; but not without truth.

It doesn't matter what God says, we can out-vote him!

Is God a one-size-fits-all concept?

god^x has no greater enemy than god^y

Any named god, Jehovah, for example, is necessarily an enemy of godⁿ, godⁿ⁺¹ ...

A priest has about as much to do with God as Coke has to do with Thoreau.