Accepting Quote by Bertrand Russell

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

— Timothy Keller

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

— Doris Egan

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the…

— Peter Kreeft

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

— Richard Carrier

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

— Richard Dawkins

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

— Dennis Prager

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

— Woodrow Wilson

I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I…

— Amber Heard

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that…

— John Rawls

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

— Francis Collins