“The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.” PersonsDoeWholeFaithAsksReligiousLibertyDependsGloryPrejudiceExpectedRationalChiefsJustifyJustificationReligious FaithReligious LibertyReligious PersonGod Delusion Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.” PeopleFirstsReligiousCasesConvictionRationalAphorism Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.” MenGivingFeelingsReligionSocialReligiousWiseInstitutionsImprovementDevotionRationalPromotionProfitableSocial Being Book:Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture Source: Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture
“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.” KindChildrenUseTodayYoungValuesGoalTermInterestReligiousSimplePracticeConditionsTasteOur ChildrenMethodInstitutionsInvestmentEducationalRationalAll KindsCorporateCapitalistElitesCommodityRulingDisturbing Author:Jack Zipes
“However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.” PeopleIfsLawCoursesBeliefReligiousSuccessfulBasesFoundationRationalObservationEtcWhat IfGravityNewtonReligious BeliefGreat SuccessNewton's Laws Author:George Coyne