When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Peter Boghossian
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  1. Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

  2. If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.

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  4. An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

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