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Quotes from A Manual for Creating Atheists — Peter Boghossian

born 1966 United States

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To argue that people need faith is to abandon hope, and to condescend and accuse the faithful of being incapable of understanding the importance of reason and rationality.

A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013)

Inquiry and wonder must replace dogmatism and certainty. The long-term goal is to create conditions that turn the dispositions of inquiring and wondering into culturally trumpeted values.

A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013)

A criticism of an idea is not the same as a criticism of a person. [...] Ideas don't deserve dignity; people deserve dignity.

A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013)

Don't complain, apologize, or mumble in the defense of reason. [...] Tell people exactly what you think and why you think it.

A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013)

Give faith-based justifications no countenance. [...] Let the utterer know that faith is not an acceptable basis from which to draw a conclusion that can be relied upon.

A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013)

The thrust of our message must be that there are things we don't know and it's okay not to know— even in death. Not claiming to know something you don't know isn't a character flaw, it is a virtue.

A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Boghossian (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.