Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Sam HarrisTag: religion atheism skepticism
...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality... But I had gradually come by this time, i.e., 1836 to 1839, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow at sign,
Charles DarwinTag: doubt belief atheism miracles metaphors hell skepticism interpretation evidence divine-revelation
The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
Charles DarwinTag: science religion skepticism
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
Thomas PaineTag: science christianity religion skepticism the-bible
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas PaineTag: christianity religion skepticism separation-of-church-and-state
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas PaineTag: christianity religion skepticism separation-of-church-and-state
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the other hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is contradicting himself.
There can be no knowledge of what is good for man apart from knowledge of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in which this knowledge can be acquired except through reason. To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
Tag: religion atheism skepticism
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]
Tag: science natural intuition superstition skepticism design evidence
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
Thomas JeffersonTag: religion skepticism
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules VerneTag: science religion skepticism
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