Source: confrontingbabble-on
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Carl Jung
(via spiritualconnections)
Source: wholepersoncounsel
Why is God considered an explanation for anything? It’s not - it’s a failure to explain, a shrug of the shoulders, an ‘I dunno’ dressed up in spirituality and ritual. If someone credited something to God, generally what it means is that they haven’t a clue, so they’re attributing it to an unreachable, unknowable sky-fairy. Ask for an explanation of where that bloke came from, and odds are you’ll get a vague, pseudo-philosophical reply about having always existed, or being outside nature. Which, of course, explains nothing.
Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne
I’m just going to make this distinction one more time.
Gnostic atheism:
I believe there is not a god.
The placement of the word “not” before god, rather than believe, indicates that there is a belief against the existence of a god. In the same way that you might say “I believe my mother is not at the store.” You have strong evidence to support that she is at the doctor, possibly, which in turn serves as evidence that she is not at the store.
Agnostic atheism:
I do not believe there is a god.
By placing “not” before believe, instead of god, you indicate that there is an absence of belief, rather than a firm belief in the absence.
Source: theboywiththebookshelf
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of skeptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescope. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.
Bertrand Russell
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