Religious skepticism

Religious skepticism is a type of skepticism relating to religion. Religious skeptics question religious authority and are not necessarily anti-religious but skeptical of specific or all religious beliefs and/or practices.

Quotes

• I am a skeptic about everything, including God and atheism.
  • Alan Dershowitz, in "Taking Disbelief out of the Closet" in Free Inquiry, Vol. 19, (Summer 1999).

• Dare to think. Dare to doubt. Dare to question everything in spite of what the superstitious around you teach and preach.
  • Leo Igwe, A Manifesto for a Skeptical Africa (27 October 2012), James Randi Educational Foundation.

• The two dominant religions have fantastic rewards for those who cannot think, the intellectually conforming, unquestioning and obedient, even those who kill or are killed furthering their dogmas. They need to be told that the skeptical goods — the liberating promises of skeptical rationality — are by far more befitting and more beneficent to Africans than imaginary rewards either in the here and now or in the hereafter.
  • Leo Igwe, A Manifesto for a Skeptical Africa (27 October 2012), James Randi Educational Foundation.

• Skeptics need to organize and mobilize — online and offline — to further the cause of reason, science and critical thinking. They need to speak out in the media and to politicians about the harm resulting from undue credulity and challenge and confront the charlatans directly to put up or shut up. Skeptics can no longer afford to keep quiet or remain indifferent in the face of a looming dark age. They need to campaign for a reform of the educational system and encourage the teaching of critical thinking in schools.
  • Leo Igwe, A Manifesto for a Skeptical Africa (27 October 2012), James Randi Educational Foundation.

See also

• Doubt
• Freedom of religion
• Rationalism
• Secularism
• Skepticism

External links

• Religious skepticism at PhilPapers

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