Causes Quote by Wendy Kaminer

Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

— Wendy Kaminer

Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion…

— Wendy Kaminer

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,

— Pascal Boyer

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

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

— Christopher Moore

Faith is intellectual laziness.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

— Christopher Hitchens

Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and…

— Deborah Feldman

“There are many things in our society masquerading as faith. What many see as faith may actually be just force of habit, patriotism, stubbornness,…

— William Hemsworth

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

— Gene Roddenberry

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

— Dan Barker