Everybody’s favorite young college student, Jumping from Conclusions, has recently introduced me to the writings of Robert Green Ingersoll. Ingersoll was a writer and orator, back in the days when public oratory was a form of entertainment.
Ingersoll often spoke on progressive issues of the day: women’s suffrage, anti-slavery, and agnosticism. His writing often denouned religious [...]
…or do you accept only on faith?
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
–Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
Amazing what Google will bring up when searching for ‘faith + quotes’ (not that I necessarily agree with any of these):
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
-James Baldwin
Here is an oldie but a goodie [...]
Hello all. I wanted to finish my top 10 book reviews for 2006, but I am feeling a bit snarky this evening, so I present instead the Top 10 Christian cliches that to me are like fingernails on a chalkboard. Some I have been hearing for too many years. Some are fine but have lost all meaning. [...]
