Belief Quote by Donald Morgan

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

— Don Cupitt

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

— Junius

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

— H. L. Mencken

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of…

— Sidney Hook

The religious try to enforce belief in the unbelievable

— David Crabb

Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

— Ambrose Bierce

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

— Sam Harris

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

— H. L. Mencken

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

— Mason Cooley

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious…

— Alvin Plantinga

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by…

— Sam Harris

Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its…

— Adolf Hitler