Modern Skepticism Quotes

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from among the matter which serious people believe.

In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don't get it; it doesn't appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.

That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.

Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

I'm definitely post-something.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.