“That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.” PeopleWantHumansIdeasEarthSufferingHuman BeingsCrimeGenuineReasonableFrighteningToleratePlague Author:Richard Carrier
“If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress, each man has therefore the right to find in the world what is necessary for himself. The recent Council reminded us of this: "God intended the earth and all that it contains for the use of every human being and people. Thus, as all men follow justice and unite in charity, created goods should abound for them on a reasonable basis."” PeopleIfsMenWorldShouldHumansMeanMadeUseEarthPoliticsIndividualGrowthJusticeHuman BeingsEconomyProgressBasesInstrumentsCharityLiberalismReasonableGoodsCouncilLivelihood Author:Pope Paul VI
“There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.” HumansGivenJusticeHuman BeingsPrinciplesAtheismBoundsPursueInstanceReasoningReasonableSpheres Author:William Godwin
“How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.” LoveHumansReasonReligiousHuman BeingsMoralIdentityMereReasonableHorizonCompellingGuardianCognitiveFuseReligious Identity Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason