That’s the question you should always ask believers when they make unsupported assertions, ranging from “God is loving” to “Our souls live on after death.” The answer will always be one of two things: “The Bible says so,” or “I just know it to be true.” Neither of those are rational answers, but they satisfy the religious.
It is in fact the “how-do-you-know-that” query that really distinguishes New Atheism from Old. While atheists have always decried the lack of evidence for theism, it is the infusion of scientists and science-friendly people into atheism, starting with Carl Sagan and continuing on to Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Pinker, and Dennett, that has made us realize that religious dogmas are in fact hypotheses, and you need reasons and evidence for accepting them. If you have none, then you have no reason to believe in God.
" Catholic official says that angels exist but are wingless http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/catholic-official-says-that-angels-exist-but-are-wingless/" December 21, 2013
Jerry Coyne: Citáty anglicky
If it does matter, then you must justify your beliefs; if it doesn’t, then you must justify belief itself.
Zdroj: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 63
Zdroj: " Panpsychism again? https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/11/19/panpsychism-again/" November 19, 2021
“Religion and xenophobia go together like hot dogs and mustard.”
" Two stray and unpublished comments https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/06/17/two-stray-and-unpublished-comments/" June 17, 2022
