"Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic"
- Michael Shermer
About this Quote
This quote by Michael Shermer recommends that religious faith is not based on realities or proof, however rather on a variety of social, psychological, and emotional factors. This suggests that spiritual faith is not always reasonable or rational, however rather is based on individual beliefs and experiences. This quote suggests that spiritual faith is a personal and subjective experience, which it is not always based on realities or evidence. It also indicates that spiritual faith is not always a reasonable or rational choice, however rather is based upon individual beliefs and experiences. This quote recommends that religious faith is a personal and subjective experience, which it is not necessarily based upon facts or evidence. It also suggests that religious faith is not necessarily a reasonable or logical decision, but rather is based on individual beliefs and experiences. Ultimately, this quote recommends that spiritual faith is a personal and subjective experience, and that it is not always based upon facts or proof.
This quote is written / told by Michael Shermer somewhere between September 8, 1954 and today. He/she was a famous Writer.
The author also have 22 other quotes.
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"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost"
"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"
