Do you agree with the following statement by the Marquis de Sade?

Question

"The invention of god is the one thing for which I cannot forgive humanity"

Answer 1

I do not think even the Marquis De Sade agrees with the Marquis de Sade...He is the eighteenth century equivalent of Russell Brandt..He said these obscene blasphemous utterances as he knew the notoriety and fame it would bring him! A narcissist to the nth degree

Answer 2

No, of course I don't agree.  I'll bet he doesn't feel so smug now, because he's met his maker.  

Also, I would caution you about using people like Marquis de Sade for your moral and intellectual template.

Answer 3

Besmirch a man's name and character, if you must.

It reflects the person that you are, that you sink to such depths when the question itself is so simple.

Let he who is without sin start the mud-slinging.

I do agree with the Marquis, it is the one thing for which he could never forgive humanity.

Answer 4

No  I do  not believe mankind  invented God.

Answer 5

That's a good one.

Another one is; "God is man's worst invention".

Answer 6

I see no point in believing the utterances of someone so immoral and decadent and who died miserably in the end.  Had he been truthful, he would have acted more humanely towards others and not treat them as his personal s*x toys. Why blame God for his own profligacy?

Answer 7

Simone's answer is accurate....now we have internet pornograph which is highly addictive and universal.  

And five years after his arrest, the French Revolution began,destroying France in the most violent and chaotic fashion ever known...so watch out.

Answer 8

Eh, I can't forgive humanity for a lot of things, and sadly the invention of a god isn't high up on that list. However as the root of many of the things I can't forgive, it's high up on it.

Answer 9

He seems to be right but at the same time it is only God or the thought of God which can save humanity.

Answer 10

No, I'm a pretty forgiving sort and there have been many worse gods and inventions.

He does have a point though.

Answer 11

I can not forgive humanity for many things but blaming everything on the idea of God or a god is just asinine.

(No I don't agree.)

:)  Well, I'm glad I made you giggle sweetie!!

Answer 12

He did have a way with words...

The answer above me makes me giggle.

He wasn't blaming god.  He was blaming man.

Answer 13

De Sade combined pornography with s*x crimes. Repeatedly arrested for his crimes, de Sade spent the closing years of his life in an insane asylum, to the end trying to get the inmates to produce his pornographic and sadistic plays.

Sexual immorality is a tool that Satan the Devil is using on a large scale to corrupt humankind and to turn people away from God and his righteous principles. He used this snare to deflect angels from their heavenly estate. (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6)

“Let fornication and uncleanness of every sort or greediness not even be mentioned among you, just as it befits holy people; neither shameful conduct . . . nor obscene jesting, things which are not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks.”—Eph. 5:3-12.

Fill the mind with the things that are true, righteous, chaste, lovable, well spoken of, virtuous and praiseworthy. (Phil. 4:8) Doing so will serve to protect you from the snare of pornography. Yes, as the apostle Paul wrote at Romans 12:9: “Abhor what is wicked, cling to what is good.”

In other words "no".

Respectfully,

Simone

Answer 14

no, there are many things for which i cannot forgive humanity.

well, to be more specific, there are many things i cannot forgive stupid americans, most humans are pretty good.