Paul Kenneth Keller famous quotes

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.
-- Paul Kenneth Keller

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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?

The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.