George Carlin - Douglas Adams - Sam Harris - Plato - Penn & Teller TV - Exodus 3:5 - Exodus 30:37 - Leviticus 10:10 - Leviticus 11:44&45 - Leviticus 19:2 - Leviticus 19:24 - Leviticus 20:7 - Leviticus 20:26 - Leviticus 21:6 - Leviticus 27:21 - Leviticus 27:30 - Numbers 4:20 - Numbers 18:17 - Deuteronomy 14:2 - Nehemiah 8:10 - Isaiah 62:10
Any time holy people are killing one another I’m a happy guy. George Carlin
Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I’m sure we’ll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and that it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked and if it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day, and if it doesn’t withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn’t seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That’s an idea we’re so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it’s kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is ‘Here is an idea or a notion that you’re not allowed to say anything bad about; you’re just not. Why not? – because you’re not!’ Douglas Adams
The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy. Sam Harris, The End of Faith
Is that which is holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved by the gods? Plato, Euthyphro
Maybe it’s just us but it sure seems like anyone who has an aura of holier than thou is usually pretty often kind of ... not. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s3e5: Holier Than Thou, Showtime 2005
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Exodus 3:5
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord. Exodus 30:37
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean. Leviticus 10:10
For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. Leviticus 11:44&45
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. Leviticus 19:2
But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord withal. Leviticus 19:24
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 20:7
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. Leviticus 20:26
They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. Leviticus 21:6
But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s. Leviticus 27:21
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord. Leviticus 27:30
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die. Numbers 4:20
But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord. Numbers 18:17
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. Deuteronomy 14:2
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength. Nehemiah 8:10
And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. Isaiah 62:12