We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist. . . If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that. . . his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.
But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition that there are an even number of stars; but also, no one thinks the right conclusion to draw is that there are an uneven number of stars. The right conclusion would instead be agnosticism.
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.
An artist is always in the state of becoming.
I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!