Douglas Feaver Quotes

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

In matters of religion it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.

If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve its own interests.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded

[Religious] superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.

For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.