Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Sceptical

Religious people try to impose their beliefs on others, but, it was said, when secular people make their case, they just have facts, and people who disagree are closing their eyes to those facts.

It is assumed, not proven, that a God beyond our reason could not exist—and therefore we conclude that he doesn’t exist.

David Hume has extensively argued, our science is based on beliefs about the universe that can’t be proven or disproven.

Sociologists Peter Berger and Grace Davie report that “most sociologists of religion now agree” that the secularization thesis—that religion declines as a society becomes more modern—“has been empirically shown to be false.”

“No one can know enough to be certain about God and religion,” without assuming at that moment that you know enough about the nature of religious knowledge to be certain about that.

science cannot adjudicate morality or define such a thing.

all people have innumerable beliefs about reality and relevance that come to us through bodily experience, authorities we trust, and communities we are part of.

Terrible deeds have been done in the name of religion, but secularism has not proven to be an improvement.

Why, for example, should you look at love and aggression—both parts of life, both rooted in our human nature—and choose one as good and reject one as bad? They are both part of life. Where do you get a standard to do that? If there is no God or supernatural realm, it doesn’t exist.