--- title: "4 Gullibility Faith Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 4 Gullibility Faith quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Gullibility Faith sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fec/wendy-kaminer-16305_causes_in-its-more-authoritarian-forms-religion_1457220.jpg" --- > [In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-kaminer/in-its-more-authoritarian-forms-religion-punishes-questioning-and/) [Wendy Kaminer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-kaminer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fec/wendy-kaminer-16305_causes_in-its-more-authoritarian-forms-religion_1457220.jpg) > [Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/man-once-surrendering-his-reason-has-no-remaining-guard-against/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/thomas-jefferson-43_absurdity_man-once-surrendering-his-reason-has-no_1600815.jpg) > [“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-hocus-pocus-phantasm-of-a-god-like-another-cerberus-with-one-body-2/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/656/thomas-jefferson-43_absurdities_the-hocus-pocus-phantasm-of-a-god-like-a_2192196.jpg) > [Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-kaminer/religions-of-course-have-their-own-demanding-intellectual-traditions/) [Wendy Kaminer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-kaminer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/wendy-kaminer-16305_average_religions-of-course-have-their-own-deman_2869413.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gullibility-faith/#itemlist", "name": "Gullibility Faith Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. 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In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck . 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