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Peter Boghossian

Peter Gregory Boghossian (/bəˈɡoʊziən/; born July 25, 1966) is an American philosopher and atheism advocate. He is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. His primary research areas are critical thinking, philosophy of education, and moral reasoning. Boghossian is a speaker for the Center for Inquiry, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, and the Secular Student Alliance. He has been nominated as a member of the Global Secular Council.

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Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

Aka, Christian, Faith, Quantum, Religion, Small

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

Christian, Christians, Faith, Know, Phrases, Religion

In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

Entitled, Facts, People, Think, Thinking, Views

Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.

Faith, Path, Reliable, Truth

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.

Faith, Know, Knows, Pretending, Religion

Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of law, due process, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, separation of church and state, and separation of government powers into branches that oversee each other's authority.

Government, John, Law, Locke, Mean

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

Crisis, Mean, Pretending, Religion, Struck

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

Religion, Thinking, Truth, Unreliable, Way

Here is book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, written by a couple of Christian apologists, which is essentially saying I don't pretend enough to know things I don't know to be an atheist.

Apologists, Atheist, Christian, Couple, Written

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

Disguised, Faith, Illness, Moral, Virtue

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

Cure, Faith, Help, Religion, Viruses, World

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

Cold, Faith, Religion, Upset, Viruses