Pop quiz, if you don't have anything to be proud of, what should you do?
If you are a fundamentalist from ANY religion, there is an easy solution: you boast that you have faith! Yes, faith! Faith per se is a good thing to be boasted!
Err ... no guys, it doesn't work that way. See how these masters ridiculed "faith":
"Faith:
not wanting to know what is true.“
--
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
God did not reward men for being honest, generous and brave, but for the act of faith. Without faith, all the so-called virtues were sins. and the men who practiced these virtues, without faith, deserved to suffer eternal pain.
God did not reward men for being honest, generous and brave, but for the act of faith. Without faith, all the so-called virtues were sins. and the men who practiced these virtues, without faith, deserved to suffer eternal pain.
--Robert
G. Ingersoll "Why I am an agnostic" (1896)
"Faith
is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate."
--
F. M. Knowles
“A
Faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many
regrets.”
--
Arthur C. Clarke
"I've
often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying
'This is fiction.' I mean, walking on water? It takes... an act of
faith. And I have faith in this movie — not that it's true, not
that it's factual, but that it's a jolly good story."
--
Sir Ian McKellen, speaking about “The Da Vinci Code“
“When
we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; when
we have no reasons, or bad ones, we have lost our connection to the
world and to one another.“
--
Sam Harris in
An Atheist Manifesto
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