Fundamentalists are called fundies for a reason. When they are around, fun dies. — Dipta Anwar (via Plurk)
If there is no God, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire.

Ah, mankind. How we are longing for a higher being above us. Whether it is for our personal comfort, our social solidarity, or our mere political vehicle.

I really hope that people will one day be able to judge others not by their race and religion but solely by the content of their character. Will that day ever come? — a review on “Al-Qaida’s Jihad in Europe” book.
…iman seharusnya bukan percaya dan yakin saja atas semua ajaran agama yang dianggap mutlak benar dan sempurna, tetapi iman yang hidup akan terus mencari dan menggali apa yang mulia dan berguna bagi kedamaian dan kesejahteraan seluruh umat manusia.
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Dan untuk itu diperlukan sebercik keragu-raguan.
— Prof. Peter Suwarno, menyarikan tulisan Peter Berger dan Anton Zijderveld.
I do not believe in competition between religions. After all, God has no religion. God is for us all.

Yoweri Museveni

Said after Gaddafi’s (that Libyan head of state) remark on Christianity, “Bible was human-forged!”. Though being a majority, the Ugandan Christians chose to forgive him. I wish the Muslims counterpart could be like this.

Additional notes: I’m not sure why several Muslims love to mutilate and claim other religions’ sacred texts (like Bible) as “false” while they don’t have proper knowledge on them (never read on them and being an ethnocentric bastard).

Syukur, anda berbahagia dgn iman anda. Tapi berpikir kritis tak berarti memusuhi, bahkan bisa memperkuat iman anda

Goenawan Mohamad

(via Twitter)

Seperti nasehat ustadz saya di ndeso sana, bukan blegernya, bukan siapa yang berdalil. Bukan media dimana dia berdakwah, tetapi isi dakwah itu sendiri yang harus kita nikmati.

Mas Narimo.

Saya sepakat. Seperti kata Ali bin Abu Thalib, “undzuur maa qoola, wa laa tandzur man qoola.

Saya seneng kalo ada orang yang percaya anjing sama lukisan itu ngebikin malaikat menjauh, saya pasang aja lukisan di mana mana, bawa anjing kemana mana„ ntar saya ga bakal meninggal (gara gara malaikat ga bisa ngedeket)

Guru Agamanya mba Rizma Adlia.

Touche!

God helps those who help themselves. — Aesop’s Fables.
a failure is never a god’s will… a failure is just a failure. man-made failure.