Belief Systems Quotes

"Religion teaches you to be satisfied with non-answers. Science is about the opposite" "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry" "The problem with ideologies is that they fail to take into account the inherent complexity of human nature." "Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse" "Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings." "Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power." "It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the creator of the universe can hear your thoughts, while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having a dinner conversation with you." "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion" "The most universal and effective binding agent of complex human societies is shared beliefs" "You become what you think about all day long" "People want to protect their own hypocrisy; they know they have lied and manipulated, but they frame their beliefs as science." "Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things, but only religion can make good people do bad things"