Quote #20
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 spectacular claims upon your attention.[2]
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- It is imperative that we begin speaking plainly about the absurdity of most of our religious beliefs.[2]
- Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.[2]
- The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, my…
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