Jonathan Miller: Believer

Jonathan Miller was British theatre director (born 1934). Explore interesting quotes on believer.
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“Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers. … Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons.”

Jonathan Miller

Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)

Faith , Effort

“There is one aspect of our own mentality for which it's difficult as yet to foresee what type of explanation would even be relevant. I'm referring, of course, to consciousness. The point is that although I have no reason to believe that my consciousness is implemented by anything other than my brain, I remain convinced that there's something impenetrably mysterious about the relationship between brains and thoughts. And you can understand, therefore, why it's so hard to imagine, let alone tolerate, the idea that the death of the brain necessarily leads to the end of the personal self – and this, of course, is the "trump card" with which religion has consistently played.”

Jonathan Miller

Episode three: "The Final Hour".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)

Death , Religion , Imagination , Idea

“Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers.”

Jonathan Miller

… Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons.
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)