"It's not easy to change world views. Faith……" — Dan Barker
"It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown."
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37 Quotes by Dan Barker
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You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need…
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Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward.…
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How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
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I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.
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To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for…
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You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
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I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs…
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There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental…
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If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true.…
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But…
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or…
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There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good…
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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