Atheism Quote by David Crabb Download Open image “The religious try to enforce belief in the unbelievable” — David Crabb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Christianity Faith Islam Religion
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. — Junius Copy Share Image
Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When it comes to bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion... Religion easily… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“Our faith doesn’t magically make our assumptions about Jesus and the Bible true. Faith can’t turn a falsehood into truth. Rightly understood, it’s not… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
“You’d think that after two teenage boys admitted a long-kept secret about their sexuality to each other there would be some sort of tentative… — David Crabb Copy Share Image
I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
The catholic church has fixed opinions on gay marriage. Opinions fixed in the dark ages — David Crabb Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
“There's really nothing sadder than goth kids in a warm-weather climate.” — David Crabb Copy Share Image
I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
All of our children should be able to aspire to any office in the land,including head of state.Hereditary power is outdated. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
