There are 49 more over at Left of Zen, but here’s the best of the best if I may be so bold:
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. ~ Baron D’Holbach
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However, I thought “Faith means not wanting to know what is true.” to be the best definition of the term I’ve seen.
I prefer this definition of faith from The Devil’s Dictionary:
“Belief without evidence in what it told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
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