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Everybody Is Wrong About God QUOTES

Everybody Is Wrong About God QUOTES

1 " The philosophy of religion is a type of academic puffery centrally concerned with pretending theism is worth taking seriously on its own terms. "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

2 " Atheists are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it, especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this: When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where the rain came from. This is not very reassuring if you’re trying to argue from a position of moral superiority.20 "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

3 " Among the advantages of anchoring on a perfect, eternal “God” is simplifying the process of ethical reasoning by essentially eliminating the ongoing requirement to assess and modify one’s own ethics. "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

4 " For the vast majority of people, helping them to uproot their faith does them at least two major favors. First, it treats them as an intelligent adult capable of engaging in serious and critical thought. Second, it helps them be less wrong. "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

5 " I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves. We have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see. —George Berkeley "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

6 " Theism means belief in the existence of gods or, especially, the God of the major monotheistic religions, and it is time that we put these superstitions away. "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

7 " Our friends, families, work, and activities, when we love them, are exactly what we get out of bed for every morning, and that’s what purpose in life means. "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

8 " There is something greater than ourselves that gives us a real sense of passive control already, really. It’s us—each other. "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

9 " faith is an almost insurmountable barrier because it, almost by definition, makes itself unquestionable. "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God

10 " Religious belief, however, is not typically delusional belief. One somewhat unsatisfactory reason that delusion doesn’t quite describe religious beliefs is that there is some relationship between them and social norms. Believing in God, lamentably, is still quite normal, and so belief isn’t, itself, an indication of mental illness so much as simply being mistaken. "

― James A. Lindsay , Everybody Is Wrong About God