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Quotes from Peter Boghossian

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.
~ Peter Boghossian
If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.
~ Peter Boghossian
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.
~ Peter Boghossian
An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
~ Peter Boghossian
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.
~ Peter Boghossian
Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.
~ Peter Boghossian
Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.
~ Peter Boghossian
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.
~ Peter Boghossian
Help cure the world of the faith virus.
~ Peter Boghossian