Gary Sloan quotes

“One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.”
-- Gary Sloan

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“For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.”
-- Gary Sloan

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“Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.”
-- Gary Sloan

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“True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.”
-- Gary Sloan

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“I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.”
-- Gary Sloan

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“When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.”
-- Gary Sloan

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“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”

“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

“Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.21

“Many can argue - not many converse.”

“Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse”

“So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.”

“I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.”