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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly read more
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the read more
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. read more
Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by read more
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the read more
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.