The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Warren is stuck in Sunday School-level, pretheological fundamentalism. It is religious infantilism of the kind that Freud to conclude that religion is nothing more than neurotic wishful thinking and the refusal to grow up. I believe there is a good bit more to religion than that, but I'm afraid Freud was right about Warrenism. It is a pinata, made of… — Robert M. Price Copy Share
Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.” — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief in the plan of salvation, how are we not dealing with "salvation by (cognitive) works" and Gnosticism (salvation by special knowledge)? Fundamentalists hotly deny it, but isn't it finally a matter of believers in the right religion being saved and everyone else… — Robert M. Price Copy Share
I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That settles it!" It must be a typo… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
