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“ Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.”

— David Burns

“Fundamentalist faith was rooted in deep fear and anxiety that could not be assuaged by a purely rational argument.”

— Karen Armstrong

“...Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of…

— Erich Fromm

“Ardent believers hide within the safety of their absolutes, for much more courage is needed to abandon their cozy security for the questioning of…

— Galen Watson

“Faith, unaccompanied by rigorous skepticism, is a recipe for myopia and foolishness.”

— Joe Klein

“Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)”

— Robin R. Meyers

“To some people independent thought is heresy and critical thought blasphemy”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic".”

— R. Alan Woods

“…just as determined belief yields no ground to the most irresistible powers and strategies, so too determined unbelief.”

— Harry Lang

“how easily people can zealously pursue and defend a point of view, often ignoring inconvenient facts that interfere with their desired belief structure. I”

— Jay Allan

“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.”

— Anonymous