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“The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.”

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Robert M. Price is an American writer known for his critical studies of religion and mythology. His work spans a variety of fields, including biblical studies, Christian theology, and literary criticism. more

“The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If there might be space aliens, we can assume there are." "If the idea of Atlantis is not impossible, we can take it for granted." "If the traditional view of gospel authorship cannot be definitievely debunked, we can go right on assuming it's truth." No, you can't.”

Ifs Believe Ideas Might Age Space Views Impossible Possibility Assuming Mere Conservative Traditional Tendencies Aliens Granted Leap New Age Authorship Notorious Atlantis Space Aliens

Author:Robert M. Price

“The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.”

Artist Achieve Effects Palette

Author:Jim Perrin

“The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.”

Art Ends Please Art Is Raises Average Superiors

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.”

Firsts Given Results Generations Adam Dozen Defects Crops Adam And Eve

Author:Hugh Ross

“There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.”

Source: The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

“The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.”

Differences Physics Smarter Metaphysics Laboratory

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Lay off with the 'You reason, so you don't feel' stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel. When people say we should only feel I am reminded of Göring, who said 'I think with my blood.' See where it led him.”

People Thinking Feels Should Said Reason Stuff Blood Please Lays Rings

Author:Peter Singer

“Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.”

Guides Probability

Book:Practical Ethics

Source: Practical Ethics

“The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.”

Belief Failing Safe Machines Components

Author:Gary Sloan

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