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#gnosticism

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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

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

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.


Clarence Darrow


#agnosticism #called #compliment #consider #i

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.


Clarence Darrow


#i #i do #ignorant #know #many

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.


Julia Sweeney


#atheist #became #because #being #comfortable

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.


Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.


Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion






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