Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith. Peter Boghossian More Quotes by Peter Boghossian More Quotes From Peter Boghossian When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know. Peter Boghossian pretending mean religion In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts. Peter Boghossian views people thinking Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue. Peter Boghossian illness moral virtue Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith. Peter Boghossian aka christian religion Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of law, due process, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, separation of church and state, and separation of government powers into branches that oversee each other's authority. Peter Boghossian government law mean Here is book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, written by a couple of Christian apologists, which is essentially saying I don't pretend enough to know things I don't know to be an atheist. Peter Boghossian couple atheist christian Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus. Peter Boghossian viruses upset religion Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth. Peter Boghossian way religion thinking Help cure the world of the faith virus. Peter Boghossian viruses world religion Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know. Peter Boghossian pretending knows religion Faith is not a reliable path to the truth. Peter Boghossian path
