A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is a mark of virtue. Pain becomes the inignia of morality - and conversely, pleasure becomes the insignia of… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am appaulled by… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be represented… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Religion has had the disastrous effect of placing vitally important concepts, such as morality, happiness and love, in a supernatural realm inaccessible to man’s… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter, there is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
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