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“Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic…

— Daniel Jones

“Invariably the failure of organized religions, by which they cut themselves off from mystery and therefore from sanctity, lies in the attempt to impose…

— Wendell Berry

“Explore the sacredness of existence.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The concessions we have made to religious faith - to the idea that belief can be sanctified by something other than evidence - have…

— Sam Harris

“Those who don’t believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their religious rituals,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“nothing is sacred in and of itself...Ideas, texts, even people can be made sacred... the act of making sacred is in truth an event…

— Salman Rushdie

“If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore,and they are just a carnival of errors,the truth is that it's…

— Sam Harris

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“Unless a person learns of the sacred intentions in their own life it will be difficult for them to understand the sacred presence in…

— Michael Meade

“Religion exists to instill false security and blind faith,”

— Kelley Armstrong

“We have a belief that we need not believe in, no dogmas, no ritual, no mythology, no church, no priest, no holy book--what a…

— Frederick Franck

“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its contingency.”

— Jacques Monod