This whole ‘God is dead’ business on the day of his confirmation. The Sopranos s6e11: Cold Stones, Carmela to Tony
You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability He hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen. We don’t need Him. Fight Club ***** 1999 starring Edward Norton & Brad Pitt & Helena Bonham Carter & Meatloaf & Jared Leto & Zach Grenier & Richmond Arquette & David Andrews & George Maguire & Eugenie Bondurant & Christina Cabot et al, director David Fincher
John Milton: Who are you carrying all those bricks for anyway? God? Is that it? God? Well, I tell ya, let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He’s a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do? I swear, for His own amusement, His own private cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It’s the goof of all time. Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, don’t swallow. Aha ha ha. And while you're jumpin’ from one foot to the next, what is He doin’? He’s laughin’ His sick, fuckin’ ass off. He’s a tight-ass. He’s a sadist. He’s an absentee landlord. Worship that? Never!
Kevin Lomax: Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven – is that it?
John Milton: Why not? I’m here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began! I’ve nurtured every sensation man has been inspired to have! I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him, in spite of all his imperfections! I'm a fan of man! I’m a humanist. Maybe the last humanist. Who, in their right mind, Kevin, could possibly deny the 20th century was entirely mine? All of it, Kevin! All of it! Mine! I'm peaking, Kevin. It’s my time now. It’s our time. The Devil’s Advocate 1997 starring Al Pacino & Keanu Reeves & Charlize Theron & Jeffrey Jones & Judith Ivey & Connie Nielson & Craig T Nelson & Heather Matarazzo & Tamara Tunie et al, director Taylor Hackford
You wonder why one man’s born white and another isn’t. And how about God himself – what colour’s he? Pool of London 1951 starring Leslie Philips & James Robertson Justice & Earl Cameron & Bonar Colleano & Susan Shaw & Renee Asherson & Moira Lister & Max Adrian & Joan Dowling & Michael Golden & Alfie Bass, director Basil Dearden, Johnny
Eric: Good God.
Jack: Is He? Get Carter 1971 starring Michael Caine & Ian Hendry & John Osborne & Britt Ekland & Bryan Mosley & George Sewell & Tony Beckley & Glynn Edwards & Alun Armstrong et al, director Mike Hodges
Glover: God hates me; that’s what it is.
Gibson: Hate him back; it works for me. Lethal Weapon 1987 starring Mel Gibson & Danny Glover & Gary Busey & Mitchell Ryan & Tom Atkins & Darlene Love & Traci Wolfe & Jackie Swanson & Ebonie Smith et al, director Richard Donner
I’ve had an epiphany: I know for sure now, I’m positive: there’s a God, he’s alive, he’s real, because He brought me you. Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright 2010 starring Andy Garcia & Aidan Quinn & Mario von Peebles & Jordan Belfi & Corbin Bernsen & Luke Goss & Gary Daniels & Raymond J Barry & Danny Pinoet al, director R Ellis Frazier
God is a luxury I can’t afford. Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 starring Woody Allen & Martin Landau & Anjelica Huston & Mia Farrow & Alan Alda & Jerry Orbach & Joanna Gleason & Claire Bloom & Sam Waterston & Caroline Aaron et al, director Woody Allen, Judah
If we were truly God’s elect, then surely He should have looked after us. A is for Acid 2002 starring Martin Clunes & Keeley Hawes & Richard Hope & Celia Imrie & Rowena Cooper & Terence Beesley & Barbara Marten & Claire Nielson et al, director Harry Bradbeer
You still believe in that big bearded boss up there? You think he’s watching us? Cool Hand Luke 1967 starring Paul Newman & George Kennedy & Strother Martin & Jo van Fleet & Joy Harmon & Morgan Woodward & Luke Askew & Robert Donner & Clifton James et al, director Stuart Rosenberg, Lucas to Dragline
Where are you? Where are you now? ibid. Lucas to God
I guess I’m pretty tough to deal with, huh? ... I guess you’re a hard case too. ibid. Lucas to God
Is there no God to protect us? Seven Samurai 1954 starring Tikashi Shimura & Isao Kimura & Yoshio Inaba & Daisuke Kato & Minoru Chiaki & Seiji Miyaguchi & Toshiro Mifune & Bokuzen Hidari & Kamatari Fujiwara & Keiko Tsushima & Yoshio Tsuchiya et al, director Akira Kurosawa, village woman
I always thought of good old Johnny God of being a big bald-headed man with whiskers. The Spikes Gang 1974 starring Ron Howard & Lee Marvin & Gary Grimes & Charlie Martin Smith & Arthur Hunnicutt & Noah Beery & Marc Smith & Don Fellows & Susan Coyne et al, director Richard Fleischer, Howard
It must feel like your God’s abandoned you. Prometheus ***** 2012 starring Michael Fassbender & Charlize Theron & Noomi Rapace & Guy Pearce & Logan Marshall-Green & Rafe Spall & Sean Harris & Kate Dickie & Benedict Wong et al, director Ridley Scott, David
It’s not an easy thing to meet your maker. Blade Runner: The Final Cut 2007 starring Harrison Ford & Rutger Hauer & Sean Young & Daryl Hannah & Edward James Olmos & M Emmet Walsh & William Sanderson & Brion James & Joe Turkel & Joanna Cassidy & James Hong, director Ridley Scott, Hauer
Is Science now starting to find elusive evidence of God? Or does Physics tell us no creator was necessary? The Universe s6e7: God and the Universe, History 2011
Would this God be the transcendent being that many people imagine our creator is? Or would it simply be an advanced mortal? ibid.
Is God Dead? Rosemary’s Baby 1968 starring Mia Farrow & John Cassavetes & Ruth Gordon & Sidney Blackmer & Marurice Evans & Ralph Bellamy & Charles Grodin & Patsy Kelly & Angela Dorian et al, director Roman Polanski, cover of Time magazine
That’s the problem with believing in a supernatural being: trying to determine what He wants. Star Trek: The Next Generation s3e4: Who Watches The Watchers? Troi as alien
Q: You’re dead. This is the afterlife. And I’m God.
Picard: You are not God! Star Trek: The Next Generation s6e15: Tapestry
God – he waits for us on the other side. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989 starring William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley & James Doohan & Walter Koenig & Nichelle ichols & George Takei et al, director William Shatner, Spock's brother
You are the first to find me. ibid. God
I doubt any God who inflicts pain for his own pleasure. ibid. McCoy
Is God really out there? ibid.
I’ve got nothing to say to God any more. The Tenth Man 1988 starring Anthony Hopkins & Kristin Scott Thomas & Derek Jacobi & Cyril Cusack & Brenda Bruce & Timothy Watson & Paul Rogers & Peter Jonfield & Geoffrey Bayldon & Michael Attwell et al, director Jack Gold, Hopkins
God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power. Lord Bolingbroke, Patriot King
I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. John Marcellus Huston
I often wonder whether God has got a sense of humour. I hope He has. I’m in trouble if he hasn’t. Dave Allen
I’m an atheist. Thank God. Dave Allen
Thank you, good night, and may your God go with you. Dave Allen, customary closing line
The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this book On Evil as in others of his recent ‘late period’ prolific burst) anxious to rewrite theology: God (whom he elsewhere tells us is nonexistent, but this is no barrier to his being lots of other things for Eagleton too, among them Important) is not to be regarded as rational: with reference to the Book of Job Eagleton says, ‘To ask after God’s reasons for allowing evil, so [some theologians] claim, is to imagine him as some kind of rational or moral being, which is the last thing he is.’ This is priceless: with one bound God is free of responsibility for ‘natural evil’ – childhood cancers, tsunamis that kill tens of thousands – and for moral evil also even though ‘He’ is CEO of the company that purposely manufactured its perpetrators; and ‘He’ is incidentally exculpated from blame for the hideous treatment meted out to Job. A C Grayling
Never go into the Church, Ossian, my grandmother said to me. Because God is not fun. John le Mesurier, Flint 1978
Three monks sketch: I’m still getting a lot of grief from believers about that question, you know, if there is only one God and he’s a loving God why did he let my crops fail? Why did he set my barn on fire? Why does he let the Romans crucify all my relatives? Andy Hamilton’s Search for Satan, BBC 2011
Monks: Who is this Devil? And who made him? ... Why did God make him? And why did God make him such an evil git? ibid.
A huge philosophical question that confronted the early Church. ibid.
Why didn’t God just destroy him? ibid. Monk’s question
You have killed God, sir. You have killed God. And I for one say good riddance to the vindictive old bugger. Creation 2009 starring Paul Bettany & Jennifer Connelly & Martha West & Freya Parks & Christopher Dunkin & Gene Goodman & Benedict Cumberbatch & Jeremy Northam & Toby Jones & Bill Paterson et al, director Jon Amiel, Huxley
You are at war with God, Charles. We both know it is a battle you cannot win. ibid.
Every culture claims a God. An all-powerful entity that created the world and directs our faith. But why do we share this belief in a cosmic Creator? Did we dream it up to serve a need in our psyche or culture? Is God really out there? Up there? This is a journey into the science of God. Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole s1e1: Is There a Creator? Science 2010
God may simply be in our minds. ibid.
From the dawn of history humans have believed in divine forces that created our world. And today most of us still pray to our higher power. But is God really out there? Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole s3e10: Did We Invent God? Science 2013
The truth may not be out there but in here. Inside all of us. Did God invent humanity? Or did we invent God? ibid.