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[The "New Atheists"] fail to recognize that mocking religious people in public is entirely inimical to the goals they wish to achieve.

— Jacques Berlinerblau

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Let us never underestimate the motivational force that the belief in Scripture’s divine proximity has upon exegetes. They open the book having already invested their faith in the proposition that it is underwritten by God.

The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005)

Today's secularists too often have very little accurate knowledge about religion, and even less desire to learn. This is problematic insofar as their sense of self is constructed in opposition to religion. Above all, the secularist is not a Jew, is not a Christian, not a Muslim, and so on. But is it intellectually responsible to define one's identity against something that one does not understand?

The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005)

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Simone Weil Last Notebook (1942)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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