Atheism Flashcards
(14 cards)
Give a quote from Freud on religion as a product of the human mind.
“Religion is a mere illusion derived from human wishes.”
Give a quote from Freud on the primal horde.
“Religion(s)… doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of this human race.”
Give a quote from Freud on religious guilt.
“The adult lends the features belonging to the figure of his father; he creates for himself the gods.”
Give a quote from Jung on archetypes.
“Nothing positive or negative has thus been asserted about the possible existence of God, any more than the archetype of the ‘hero’ proves the actual existence of a hero.”
Give a quote from Jung on the god within.
“The question of whether God exists at all or not is futile.”
Give a quote from Bertrand Russel on agnosticism.
“An agnostic thinks it is impossible to know the truth in matters suh as God and the future of life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned. Or, if not impossible, at least impossible at the present time.”
Give a quote from Daniel Dennet on analysis of religion.
“Religion has a traditional exemption from certain sorts of analysis and criticism.”
Give a quote from Richard Dawkins on the blinkeredness of fundamentalism.
“Fundamentalists know they are right because they have read the truth in a holy book and they know, in advance, that nothing will budge them from their belief.”
Give a quote from Freud on atheism.
“The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.”
Give a quote on atheism and rationality from Hume.
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
Give a quote on atheism and rationality from Hume.
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
Give a weakness of new atheism from Tina Beattie.
“Dawkins demands proof of God’s existence, for only that which we can prove beyond reasonable doubt is worthy of belief. But the word ‘God’ does not denote a ‘thing’ whose existence we can prove, any more than we can prove the ‘existence’ of love, beauty, compassion or hope.”
Give a quote on new atheism from Richard Dawkins.
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
Give a quote on new atheism from Hitchens.
“… I am an antitheist;… I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.”
