Joseph Heller Quotes on Belief
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I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody. I don't like intolerance and a dogmatic person is intolerant of other people. It's one of the reasons I keep a distance from all religious beliefs. I think in this country and in Australia too there's a late intolerance in most religions, an intolerance, a part that could easily become persecutions.
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'[T]he God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.'
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Whether God is dead or not hardly matters, for we would use him no differently anyway.
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'Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?' 'There is no heaven. There is no hell.' 'There is no heaven? There is no hell?' 'That's all in your mind.'
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I'm not even sure we really had that much need for God as much as we did seem to have a need to believe in Him.
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'The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?'