believe this than any of the alternatives.
Abu’l-Ala-Al-Ma’arri said, “The world holds two classes of men — intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.” This is a clever play on words. As we have said, religion is a man made thing. However, though there is often good and wisdom in religions they could be followed from the heart or from superstition which could appear to lack intelligence to the outside observer.
To quote Douglas Adams’, “I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.” As we have already said, religion is man made, therefore it is doomed.
Matthew Arnold – “All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.” This has not happened and does not look like happening any time soon. This is a misunderstanding of the Bible and of science. They are each mutually exclusive. Science is all about the “how” and the Bible is all about the “why”. Anyone who has held a new born baby must surely see, as I did with my children, that they are holding a tiny miracle. Miracles? The world is full of them. Something incredible turned a terrified group of simple men hiding behind locked doors into fearless evangelists. Only the miracle of the resurrection of Jesus could have caused such a transformation.
Isaac Asimov – “I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don’t have