#intellectual surrender

"Theism comes down to laziness in thinking…

You look at the most complicated systems of our biological and social world - the evolution of life from single-celled organisms to complex modern beings - the chemical and physical construction of DNA- and simply get to say, "God did it". This is how religion began. Instead of looking for answers to that which is unknown, we ascribe a deity and call it a day."

-- David G. McAfee

“In the brain of every religious person there is a god shaped vacuum.”

"Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.”

-- Dan Barker, “Losing Faith in Faith”