Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing our faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in charge
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Religion is pure hypnosis
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
All religions are guesswork
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in him, their hearts yearn for him.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Great men of old and of today never considered themselves only human, they also considered themselves gods. And god! See what hat great achievement have they realized!
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Gods can only keep their promises in books
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Even if god was proved beyond doubt that he did not exist. We would still believe in him. We don't need hard facts, we need true emotions.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
At the end of faith there is always some calamity
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Many people don't know they have stopped believing in god. Their neighbors do
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are gods but we are afraid of the ensuing responsibility; that's why we prefer to remain slaves. Only if we dared to rise up to the challenge and assume our divinity, we could perform most of the miracles we pray for.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Billions of years before I was born I did not need religion, why should I need it, billions of years after I cease to exist
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
God does not take sides. He is always on the side of the winner
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am not afraid of what god can do to me. He is already doing it
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one I love
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is stripped of its flavor when folks are told that hell is waiting for them
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana