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“You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.”

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Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier is an American author and philosopher born on December 1, 1969. He is known for his contributions to atheism and naturalism, particularly in the fields of history and science. Carrier's main works include 'On the Origin of Species: A Historian's Perspective' and 'The Scientific Revolution: A Historian's Perspective'. His work has influenced both academia and the public. more

“I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.”

World Book Feelings Religion Belief Sacred Etc Tyrants Trusted Rainbow Towers Testament World History Old Testament Barbarians Babel Revengeful Tower Of Babel

Author:Charles Darwin

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842

“The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, - that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, - that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eye-witnesses; - by such reflections as these... I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.”

Source: Autobiographies

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