when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.


“How would you explain the fact that atheists just know that harming an innocent human being is wrong, and can live good lives, without believing that God is the ultimate source of values and duties? To repeat: Belief in God is not necessary for objective morality; God is.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

“the atheist philosopher Quentin Smith unceremoniously crowned Stephen Hawking’s argument against God in A Brief History of Time as “the worst atheistic argument in the history of Western thought.”[3] With the advent of The God Delusion the time has come, I think, to relieve Hawking of this weighty crown and to recognize Richard Dawkins’ accession to the throne.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

“Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

“if you’re a first-century Jew, and your favorite Messiah got himself crucified, then you’ve basically got two choices: Either you go home or else you get yourself a new Messiah. But the idea of stealing Jesus’ corpse and saying that God had raised him from the dead is hardly one that would have entered the minds of the disciples.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
― On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

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