Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Faith is what I die for, dogma is what I kill for,’ as the saying has it; and the trouble is that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Those who think that modern times are wickeder than previous times are apt to identify the cause as the weakening of a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“I to je zapravo sustina proslavljanja Dana sv. Valentina:san o ljubavi. Zivot bi zaista bio gorak kada se san nikada ne bi ostvario ili… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party.… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
“The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this book [… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
“Hatred is a sentiment that leads to the extinction of values. ORTEGA Y GASSET” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation.… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
