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Three professionals were discussing the nature of God. The doctor
said, "The Bible states that God made Woman by taking a rib out of
Man; God is obviously a surgeon." The engineer replied, "But before
God made man he created Heaven and Earth out of Chaos; this is
obviously the work of a master engineer. The lawyer just smiled and
said, "But who do you think created the chaos?"
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Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of
the three their gods must never be touched -- else they grow restless.
-- Precepts for Ruling
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To a Europe exhausted by nearly two centuries of religious wars, [Isaac]
Newton's works were first and foremost a message about God; that He did
not behave in a capricious or arbitrary fashion, in response to either
His will or human prayer, but in accordance with absolute, unwavering,
and humanly discoverable laws of nature which governed him and all his
works. He had become the infinitely perfect Clock-Maker, his works
fathomable by the human mind.
-- Forrest MacDonald
To believe with certainty we must begin to doubt.
-- Stanislaus
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