Anthony

“Atheism has become not so much a matter of abandoning religion as the vigorous imposition of an entirely new religion, and a phantom religion at that. ”
― Bō Jinn, Illogical Atheism: A Comprehensive Response to the Contemporary Freethinker from a Lapsed Agnostic

“Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.”
― Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures

“The marriage of science to naturalism during the mid-to late 18th century, ministered most famously by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, symbolized the brokering of a union which was nothing short of a shotgun wedding of academia to ideology.  Science thus became the bride of a completely self-sufficient naturalistic worldview, a crooked union sealed by a single vow, as pervasive as it is perverse: “What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.”
― Bō Jinn, Illogical Atheism: A Comprehensive Response to the Contemporary Freethinker from a Lapsed Agnostic

“One of my favorite arguments against Jesus was how do we know He really existed? How do we know that accounts of Jesus aren’t some carefully preserved legend? Then I recalled one of my favorite characters of history. Socrates was a Greek philosopher, but he left no writings behind when he died. In fact, the only proof we have that he ever lived at all is what others have told us about him! Even then, only Plato and one or two others, such as Aristophanes, the dramatist, and Xenophon, his great friend and admirer, tell us anything about him at all. Yet, we accept their story. But more than forty different men sat down and wrote about the greatness, the sovereignty and the power of God. And many men, writing separately, gave similar and non-contradictory accounts of Jesus Christ. Yet, I didn’t believe it.”
― Tom Skinner, Black and Free