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“Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.”

“Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.”

Thinking Religion Prayer Answers Successful Atheism Proof God Answers Prayers

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born.”

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Author:Dan Barker

“The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.”

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Book:Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.”

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Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.”

Christian Religion Speak Church Understood Proof Primitive Church History

Author:Catherine Booth

“Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.”

May Religion Opinion Proof Satan Temper Orthodoxy Slender

Author:John Wesley

“The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.”

Doe Lying Religion Advantage Argument Proof Priests Biblical Can Not

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.”

World Soul Religion Belief Proof Immortality Flats

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations