“Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.”
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Joanna Russ 22
American author 1937–2011Related quotes
“No faith can possibly suffice. It’s always undermined by ignorance.”
Source: The Tides of Time (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 218)
“The village muezzin called the faithful to prayer. Diane ignored the sound.”
Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 11 (p. 149)
“I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world.”
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
Context: I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world. In 2001, only seven percent of evangelicals polled felt it incumbent upon themselves to respond to the AIDS emergency. This appalled me. I asked for meetings with as many church leaders as would have them with me. I used my background in the Scriptures to speak to them about the so-called leprosy of our age and how I felt Christ would respond to it. And they had better get to it quickly, or they would be very much on the other side of what God was doing in the world.
Amazingly, they did respond. I couldn't believe it. It almost ruined it for me — 'cause I love giving out about the church and Christianity. But they actually came through: Jesse Helms, you know, publicly repents for the way he thinks about AIDS.
I've started to see this community as a real resource in America. I have described them as "narrow-minded idealists." If you can widen the aperture of that idealism, these people want to change the world. They want their lives to have meaning.
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”
More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality (1993)
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
Variant: We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
