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When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.
Peter Boghossian

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Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of law, due process, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, separation of church and state, and separation of government powers into branches that oversee each other's authority.
Peter Boghossian

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In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.
Peter Boghossian

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Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.
Peter Boghossian

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Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.
Peter Boghossian

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Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.
Peter Boghossian

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Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.
Peter Boghossian

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Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.
Peter Boghossian

Quote Topics by Peter Boghossian: Religion Christian Thinking Viruses Mean Pretending Way Moral World Views Couple Government Knows Illness Path Virtue Atheist People Law Aka Upset Phrases
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Here is book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, written by a couple of Christian apologists, which is essentially saying I don't pretend enough to know things I don't know to be an atheist.
Peter Boghossian

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Help cure the world of the faith virus.
Peter Boghossian

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Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.
Peter Boghossian

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Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.
Peter Boghossian