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Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith QUOTES

Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith QUOTES

1 " We can only believe what we have evidence enough to prove. "

― Richard C. Carrier , Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

2 " If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was. "

― Richard C. Carrier , Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

3 " We start with the evidence, and then figure out what the best explanation of it all really is, regardless of where this quest for truth takes us. "

― Richard C. Carrier , Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

4 " So, too, I and countless others have chosen to give God a fair hearing—if only he would speak. I would listen to him even now, at this very moment. Yet he remains silent. "

― Richard C. Carrier , Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

5 " Chemists all agree on the fundamental facts of chemistry. "

― Richard C. Carrier , Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

6 " Such people are trapped in their own hall of mirrors, and for them there is no escape. They can never know whether they are wrong, even when they are. No evidence, no logic, no reason will ever get through to them. "

― Richard C. Carrier , Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith