“Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.” BeliefDesignEvolutionReaderIntelligentAtheistEndlessDiscussionHumanistCommentSecularAgnosticBlogsIntelligent Design Author:Roger Ebert
“The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.” MenProblemLastsValuesBeliefSimpleIssuesSubjectsSeriousConflictJudgmentPassingRationalPassingsDiscussionAnalysisAgreementDevicesInclinationGood And BadIrresponsibleAssertionSerious Issues Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
“When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?” PersonsBeliefCausesReligiousSubjectsPolicyBattleDevilEvidenceDenyDebateDiscussionReligious BeliefPublic Policy Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.” IfsBeliefWomenRoomsPiecesDiscussionGossipIndulgenceJuicy Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?” PeopleWorldWantKindRealStoriesTogetherBeliefReligiousCapacityConvictionDiscussionMasqueradeReal Questions Author:Rob Bell
“I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.” MindHumansDoeSeemsBeliefMy OwnOpinionOffersArgumentRootsProductionsEaseDiscussionFancySoilHuman MindContrastPropositionsPenetrateFind MeSuitableExtravagantFrivolousGreat FreedomDeep Roots Author:Michel de Montaigne