#eli

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. ↗

— Martha Beck

#perspective #religious #you

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#believe #central #complete #conference #conversion

Atheists and their fellow travelers point to Islamic terrorism as a wake-up call that we'd better abandon God or the biblical disasters attributed to him will pale in comparison to what we'll end up doing to ourselves. In other words, God may not be dead, but keeping him alive endangers the human race. ↗

— Richard Yancey

#death-of-god #god #religion #death

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#believe #people #real #real people #some

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#how #i #knew #love #never

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. ↗

— Michael Behe

#comfort #data #even #followed #gave

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood. ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#feminism #feminist #gender #gender-roles #gender-stereotypes

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#between #conceit #delicate #delicate balance #modesty

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them. ↗

— Michael Behe

#accurate #anatomy #astounded #century #deliver

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#believe #entertained #every #fantastic #i