Peter Boghossian Quotes

#1. Pat Tillman (for abandoning an incredibly promising football career to give his life for his country).

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#2. If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence
and punishes those who do.

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#3. An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

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#4. When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

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#5. The only way to avoid eternal punishment for sins we never committed from this all-loving God is to accept his son - who is actually himself - as our savior. So ... God sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself. Barking mad!

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#6. Socrates said that a man doesn't want what he doesn't think he lacks. That is, if you believe you have the truth then why would you seek another truth?

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#7. Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

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#8. Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

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#9. Reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.

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#10. Certainty is an enemy of truth: examination and reexamination are allies of truth.

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#11. The sins of the fathers are to be born by their children's children's children? What sort of justice is that? This goes against half a millennium's worth of Western jurisprudence.

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#12. The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard knocks. She relentlessly helps others by tearing down falsehoods about whatever enshrined "truths" enslave us.

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#13. If one had sufficient evidence to warrant belief in a particular claim, then one wouldn't believe the claim on the basis of faith. "Faith" is the word one uses when one does not have enough evidence to justify holding a belief, but when one just goes ahead and believes anyway.

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#14. Reasoning away faith means helping people to abandon a faulty epistemology, but reasoning away religion means that people abandon their social support network.

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