#gnostic

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We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.


Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.


Criss Jami


#apologetics #atheism #evolution #faith #god

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.


Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.


Robert A. Heinlein


#god #religion #worship #religion

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.


Carl Sagan


#religion #skepticism #religion

A belief is not true because it is useful


Henri-Frédéric Amiel


#agnosticism #agnostics #atheism #atheist #atheists

Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this world's formation; Who then can know the origins of the world? None knows whence creation arose; And whether he has or has not made it; He who surveys it from the lofty skies. Only he knows- or perhaps he knows not.


Anonymous


#agnosticism #ancient #hinduism #religion #religion

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed


Bō Jinn


#atheism #christianity-islam #god #religion #religion

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.


Hu Shih


#confucius #humanist

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.


Tony Horwitz


#belief #faith #maps #faith