Jon Meacham Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

  Jon Meacham

  Rejection, Mind, Liberty

• The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

  Jon Meacham

  Fighting, Support, Intellectual

• Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

  Jon Meacham

  Biblical, Light, Scripture

• I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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