To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of #reason, and whose #philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an #atheist by #scripture.
—Thomas Paine

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#atheism #faith #god

Faith is the excuse people give for #believing something when they don’t have a good #reason.
—Matt Dillahunty

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#atheism #faith #god

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Why? Because. The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts — Because.
 
[Pourquoi ? Parce que. Le plus terrible des motifs et la plus indiscutable des réponses: Parce que.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76086/

#Religion…asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves – to replace #reason with its opposite, faith. When men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil.
—James L. Sutter

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#atheism #faith #god

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Experience #Observation #Reason #Science

#Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

McElroy’s proper place in the world. His 1989 book, “The Search for an American Public #Theology,” argued that the fundamentalist strain of #Christianity, which wanted government leaders to base decisions on certain Scriptures, was too partisan and alienating to unify a country as diverse as the United States. Instead, Catholics should find common ground through an appeal to #reason, he believed. You didn’t need to quote the Bible to establish human life as sacred.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/02/historic-or-heretical-san-diegos-cardinal-is-one-of-the-u-s-s-most-consequential-catholic-leaders/

While looking for a reason
I missed the obvious -
It's life. It happens. It needs no reason.

~ Iva

"Common sense" is what you invoke when you cannot support your beliefs with either "real arguments" or "real data."

Common sense is the noise that comes out of you when all you've got is the vague sense that you must be right--somehow?--but even *you* don't know why you think that.

Common sense is a slogan for shutting down arguments without having to know or prove anything.

There’s a #reason these #people are fucking #stupid and proud of it.

"What other explanation can there be?" = "I have no evidence for my belief, so I'm just going to believe it anyway, and if someone calls me out for it, I'll shift the burden of proof onto them even though I'm the one making the claim."

Let that sink in.....
#antireligion #atheism #atheist #antitheist #christian #christianity #evolution #freethinker #god #godless #godisfake #goodwithoutgod #growup #godlessandhappy #islam #jesus #nogod #reason #religion #religionpoisonseverything #religionsucks #religionkills #science #satan #secular #secularism #thebible #theism #truth

The word #absurd originates from the Latin absurdus, meaning “out of tune” or “discordant,” and “incongruous, foolish, or senseless.”

The term evolved through Middle French absurde before entering English in the mid-16th century to describe something “plainly illogical” or “contrary to reason”.

Its figurative sense reflects being “out of harmony with reason or propriety”.