Quote #17

The End of Faith (2004), page 25[2]

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  1. The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention-distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its cla…
  2. Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.[2]
  3. Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse.[2]
  4. We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it.[2]
  5. 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…
  6. Faith is rather like a rhinoceros, in fact: it won't do much in the way of real work for you, and yet at close quarters it will make specta…
  7. 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…
  8. It is imperative that we begin speaking plainly about the absurdity of most of our religious beliefs.[2]

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