Peter Boghossian Quotes
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.
In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.
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.
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.
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.
Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.
Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.
If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.
When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.
An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
