Argument Quote by John Warwick Montgomery

I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements to be…

— Philip Kitcher

“Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same "reasoning" to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs,…

— Dave Champion

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

— Jacob Neusner

“The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions…

— Anonymous

When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't.…

— Sam Harris

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting…

— Joseph Campbell

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is…

— Timothy Keller

“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.”

— Voltaire

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic…

— Jon Krakauer

“As Os Guinness explains, Christianity is not true because it works (pragmatism); it is not true because it feels right (subjectivism); it is not…

— Hank Hanegraaff

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton