Unquestioned Faith Quotes

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

Every dogma has its day.

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

… contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.