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"Truth is really whatever can be shown to correspond to reality. Truth is what the facts are essentially. Facts are after all points of data that you can verify to be accurate.
A lot of people hate these definitions because it completely undermines their theology. They can’t make the assertions that they want to by saying anything is the absolute truth, because under the definition of either word no you don’t!"
-- Aron Ra
"Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to have, because it is an assertion of stoic conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason. If you have to believe it on faith, you have no reason to believe it at all."
-- Aron Ra
“Anytime I hear someone say that only humans have a thoughtful mind, a loving heart, or a compassionate soul, I have to think that person has never owned a dog or known an elephant.”
-- Aron Ra
"Before we can say that something is possible, there must be a precedent or parallel or verified phenomenon indicating that such a possibility exists.
You don't have that for God, and miracles are impossible by definition."
-- Aron Ra, YouTube
Religion: where the intangible, undetectable and unknowable is a better explanation than the possible.
Or care.
If you use “faith” to determine your beliefs, you have no way to distinguish them from other people’s faith-based beliefs; they’re exactly equivalent. Since we know they can’t all be right, you have no way to separate your (supposedly) “true” ones from the other untrue ones. You have no way to say that yours aren’t wrong while all the others are. All you can do is double down and resort to more worthless, empty “faith” -- the unreliable mechanism that got you into this mess in the first place.
(via Reason Revolution)
While you’re at it, and with this in mind, provide a valid explanation for why asking or requiring evidence from you is unreasonable or unjustified.
“I don't understand why I'm considered arrogant for thinking that I am temporary, insignificant..
I'm a blink in the cosmic eye. And that it has existed long before me. And won't remember me very long.
I'm arrogant for that. But the Christian who claims that he is the reason the universe exists is humble in his ideology.”
-- Aron Ra
