6 Joseph Heller Quotes on Belief

Joseph Heller quotes on belief

1. 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.

23. '[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.'

33. Whether God is dead or not hardly matters, for we would use him no differently anyway.

45. '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.'

56. 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.

61. 'The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?'