Quote #12
To believe that God exists is to believe that I stand in some relation to his existence such that his existence is itself the reason for my belief.[2]
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- We are no more free to believe whatever we want about God than we are free to adopt unjustified beliefs about science or history, or free t…
- A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life.[2]
- Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the worl…
- The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy.[2]
- Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse.[2]
- Most religions have merely canonized a few products of ancient ignorance and derangement and passed them down to us as though they were pri…
- The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention-distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its cla…