Faith Quote by Scott Atran

“For my purposes, the differences among animistic, pantheistic, and monotheistic religions can be ascribed to differences in the content of beliefs in the supernatural,…

— Scott Atran

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

— Nicky Gumbel

“There are many people, many worlds who believe in supernaturalism in one form or another... religion, if you like the word better. We may…

— Isaac Asimov

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity

— Donald Morgan

My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent…

— Richard Dawkins

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

— Anonymous

That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science…

— Susan Jacoby

“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

“The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.”

— Joe Iacovino

“A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual…

— Anthon St. Maarten

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

— Victor J. Stenger

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

— Sigmund Freud