Best 32 quotes of A. J. Beirens on MyQuotes

Abortie kan niet omdat het tegen gods gebod zou zijn. Ja, dat lieverdje die zuigelingen laat afslachten, Eerstgeborenen met de dood slaat En een hele mensheid verdrinkt. Uit: "Gesels van een imaginaire god

Abortion is not allowed because apparently it is against the law of god. Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deity who ordered babies to be slaughtered, killed all the first-born in Egypt And caused an entire human race to drown. From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god" (Scourges of an imaginary god)

Als kind had mijn tante Olive een voor anderen onzichtbaar vriendinnetje. Topsy woonde helemaal achterin de tuin. Dat het maar verbeelding was heeft Olive nooit willen geloven. En toen ze vele jaren later begon te dementeren hield Topsy haar opnieuw trouw gezelschap. (Uit: Kinderpraat)

As a boy of 14, at night under the bed sheets, I secretly travelled all around the world, with an ear glued to my shortwave receiver. That way I learned more than during the day at school. (From: Kinderpraat)

As a child, my aunt Olive had a friend Who was invisible to others. Topsy lived at the back of the garden. That this was just her imagination Olive always strenuously denied. And when she developed dementia many years later Topsy again faithfully kept her company. (From: Kinderpraat)

Children do not tolerate injustice and obey their parents. That will remain so as they get bigger. Only then they sometimes obey a voice on the internet. (From: Kinderpraat)

Children listen to their parents And to their wife when they are bigger. In places where women are of little consequence, they listen to an imam. Hopefully it's a good one. (From: Kinderpraat)

De 'bullshitdetector' is de grootste vijand van elke godsdienst." Uit: "Gesels van een imaginaire god

De voornaamste oorzaken van echtscheidingen zijn huwelijken.

Did god make man too perfect, So that a piece has to be removed through circumcision?

Don't be sad that it's over. Be glad that you ever lived to see it.

From an early age children play 'cowboys and Indians', Nobody ever plays 'UN peacekeeping force'. (From: Kinderpraat)

From bigots who hawk their god door-to-door, preserve us.

From history books one should at best believe the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even completely invented.

Heeft god de man dan té volmaakt gemaakt dat men er zo nodig een stuk moet van afsnijden? Over 'besnijdenis' in "Gesels van een imaginaire god

Het is tijd om te eisen van de gelovigen dat ze hun persoonlijke keuzes, voorkeuren en geloof aan niet-rationele en soms gevaarlijke zaken strikt in de privésfeer houden. Iedereen is absoluut vrij om te geloven wat ze willen, op voorwaarde dat ze anderen niet lastig vallen (of dwingen, of doden).. Maar niemand heeft het recht om privilegies te eisen op grond van het feit dat ze aanhangers zijn van een of ander van 's werelds vele godsdiensten.

Het moment echter dat deze vertelsels werden samengebracht en neergepend in zogeheten 'heilige boeken' moet zonder enige twijfel gezien worden als het meest rampzalige ogenblik in de geschiedenis van de mensheid. Uit "Gesels van een imaginaire god

He who does not believe and yet follows the rituals teaches his children to be hypocrits (From: Kinderpraat)

If governments, using all sorts of false pretexts, continue to restrict the rights of the citizens, so that they become mere slaves of a handful of multinationals, then a global revolt of the common man against extreme capitalism is not inconceivable.

If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.

Is it too bold to point out that there is nothing in the ten commandments about protecting children against cruelty? Nothing against rape and nothing against slavery, and nothing agains genocide. Could this be because these crimes are positively recommended in the rest of the bible?

It's time to demand that the faithful keep their personal choices, preferences and beliefs in irrational and sometimes dangerous things strictly private. Everyone is absolutely free to believe what they want, provided they do not harass others (or force, or kill them) .. But nobody has the right to insist on privileges simply because they are supporters of one or other of the world's many religions." From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god" ('Scourges of an imaginary god')

Nobody remembers the moment of birth. Nobody remembers the moment of death. So between both You better do memorable things. (From: Kinderpraat)

Nothing remains the same. The only thing that never changes is the fact that everything changes.

Only those who are brainwashed and fools believe in the existence of a god. Those who are indifferent just pretend.

On the sixth day god created man, on the seventh day man created god. Now we are even.

Op de zesde dag schiep god de mens, op de zevende dag schiep de mens god. Nu zijn we quitte. Uit "Gesels van een imaginaire god

The bullshit detector is the biggest enemy of every religion." From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god" ('Scourges of an imaginary god')

The main causes for divorce are marriages.

The moment that all these myths were brought together in so-called 'holy books' has -without any doubt- to be seen as the most disastrous point in time in the history of mankind. From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god" (Scourges of an imaginary god)

The purpose of life is to give our life purpose.

Vaders moeten ook emotioneel beschikbaar zijn. (Uit: Kinderpraat)