Causes Quote by Wendy Kaminer Download Open image “Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.” — Wendy Kaminer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Causes Empiricism Faith Function Insult Stupidity
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Faith is often lauded as a positive quality, but it is, in fact, very intellectually lazy. Faith precludes scientific thinking and the natural wonder… — Atheist Republic Copy Share Image
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question. — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers? — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as having a particular role. I'm lucky enough to be able to make my living essentially by expressing my… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that grazing leads… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral legal process… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man. — Big Joe Turner Copy Share Image
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage – all red, smiling from… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
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