Julian Baggini Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

  Julian Baggini

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Respect for you and your crazy beliefs" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

• A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict with science and history. For Christians, a test of this is the Empty Tomb. I ask Christians: 'are you saying that it does not matter - as a matter of fact - whether or not Christ's tomb was empty and that he was resurrected?' At that point, I find that, to a lot of them, it really does matter, despite all the fine talk about not wanting to confuse science and history with religion.

  Julian Baggini

  Christian, Religious, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• People seem very arrogant when they say 'I'm right and you're wrong', but in practice we all believe we're right. We have a staggering arrogance in our own belief. That can be tempered by not being 100% certain; by being provisional. No matter what the debate is, very few people have the modesty to suspend judgement on a whole range of things; most intelligent people have an opinion and are expected to have an opinion by other people - but it always requires making a personal judgement that goes way-beyond your expertise. We do it all the time.

  Julian Baggini

  Believe, Intelligent, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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