Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Boghossian

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Peter Boghossian.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Peter Boghossian

Peter Gregory Boghossian is an American philosopher and pedagogist. Born in Boston, he was a non-tenure track assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University for ten years, and his areas of academic focus include atheism, critical thinking, pedagogy, scientific skepticism, and the Socratic method. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists and How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide.

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.
In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.
Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth. — © Peter Boghossian
Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.
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.
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.
Help cure the world of the faith virus.
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.
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.
Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.
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.
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.
Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.
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