The authorship of a quote often colours our evaluation. A quote should stand on its own. We have purposely omitted authorship.
Do you Agree |__| Disagree |__| with the following quotes
(a self-assessment on beliefs).
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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2 Faith is perceived to be most noble, most righteous, when it is
unquestioning and adoring.
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3 Faith is considered good when there is no supporting evidence. Faith is
considered superior when it defies contrary evidence.
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4 Without risk there is no faith and the greater the risk, the greater the
faith.
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5 Faith in its purest form is blind faith uncontaminated by evidence. It
may cut through a forest of evidence to arrive at a predetermined
destination.
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6 Scriptural chronology is based on faith (answers). Scientific chronology
is based on doubt (questions). Scriptural chronology will always be
complete. Scientific chronology will never be.
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7 If a statement in Holy Scripture is unreasonable and you believe it, you
are considered a good person. If a statement is grossly absurd and you
believe it, you are a saint.
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8 Overwhelming faith requires no evidence; overwhelming evidence requires no faith.
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9 Most serious believers understand pious fraud when examining the claims of other faiths.
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10 There is simply no way that any faith can prove beyond question that
its claims are true, while those of other faiths are false.
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11 People of faith disagree with the faith of most other people of faith.
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12 One person’s faith is another person’s delusion.
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13 To rationally test one’s own faith is to use the perspective of an outsider and to apply the same criteria used to reject other faiths.
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14 Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
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15 Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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16 Faith is what we use to make a decision when we have run out of evidence.
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17 Overwhelming evidence does not make a proposition absolute but it
does make it definitive.
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18 Faith is the commitment to a belief in the absence of evidence. (to 15A)
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19 What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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20 Absence of evidence eventually becomes evidence of absence.
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21 It is wrong always and everywhere for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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22 You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
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23 An unexamined belief is not worth embracing.
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24 Faith is belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.
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25 The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.
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26 In religion faith is a virtue. In science faith is a vice.
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27 The majority of humans believe the unbelievable.
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28 Faith is so resilient that some explanation can always be found to explain the deity’s failures.
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29 Faith is not a virtue and doubt is not a sin.
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30 Scriptural narratives don’t change. Science changes when evidence forces it to.
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31 Religious belief is credited for the good that people do, and excused for the evil it encourages.
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32 Religion immunizes people against evidence.
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33 Youngsters imprinted with self-flattering beliefs are understandably
reluctant to amend them later in life, owing to the special status and
privileges their beliefs bestow.
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34 Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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35 Credulity is the child’s strength but the adult’s weakness.
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36 Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for faith in ourselves.
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37 If you can believe anything, you can see anything and may feel entitled to do anything.
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38 Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows
only when faith loses certainty; certainty can be murderous.
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39 Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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40 Why would anyone go to war for the sake of absence of belief?
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41 Theists are afraid people will think for themselves; atheists are afraid they wont.
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42 Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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A HUMANIST CREDO
Skepticism is my nature.
Free thought is my methodology.
Agnosticism is my conclusion.
Atheism is my opinion.
Humanism is my motivation.
A HUMANIST CREDO
Skepticism is my nature.
Free thought is my methodology.
Agnosticism is my conclusion.
Atheism is my opinion.
Humanism is my motivation.
Agnosticism is my conclusion.
Atheism is my opinion.
Humanism is my motivation.
