#illusion of knowledge

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the alse notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

[zespaceblog]

Often quoted as a saying of Stephen Hawking, however there is no recorded quotation of Stephen ever saying it, but there was of Daniel J Boorstin, and so I chose his name to appear alongside it. 

I’ve no doubt Stephen would have agreed with this though, the greatest danger to knowledge isn’t not knowing, it’s thinking we know it all and ignoring the evidence. There are no holy cows, but to quote another famous scientist, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” - Carl Sagan.

[authen-ti-city]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all." -- Chuck Palahniuk

You can tell by the type of questions they ask when they find out you're a non-believer.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't know all the answers to think that they do."

-- Bill Maher

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Even more dangerous than ignorance, however, is a fallacious certitude, which can afflict people at all educational levels and all IQ levels. While we may not see our own fallacies, the saving grace in this situation is taht we can often see other people's fallacies much more clearly - and they can see ours. In a world of inevitably fallible human beings, with inevitably different viewpoints and different fragments of consequential knowledge, our ability to correct each other can be essential to preventing our making fatally dangerous mistakes as individuals, or as a society." -- Thomas Sowell

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"We may never be able to know, but don't put your trust in anyone who says that they do. Those people are eliminated from the argument right away. They cannot be right. They have been practicing an imposture on the human species for centuries, for millennia." -- Christopher Hitchens