Robert M. Price Quotes About Atheism

• "You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.

  Robert M. Price

  Heart, Atheism, Revival

• The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!

  Robert M. Price

  Jesus, Atheism, One Day

• I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.

  Robert M. Price

  Cristiano, Pensamiento, Ateísmo

  Opening Statement on Mars Hill Forum at Unitarian Church, Monclair, New Jersey, www.mars-hill-forum.com. January 11, 1997.

• Pero si realmente se refirieran a algún tipo de "relación personal", se trataría en efecto de un caso de canalización. Sospecho que ésta es la razón por la que los fundamentalistas que condenan a los canalizadores de la Nueva Era no lo descartan como un fraude..., sino que piensan que Ramtha y los demás están canalizando demonios. Si dijeran que es pura ilusión, ¡sabrían a dónde apuntarían los otros cuatro dedos!

  Robert M. Price

  Thinking, Wind, Age

• "Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

  Robert M. Price

  Mean, Choices, Atheism

• It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.

  Robert M. Price

  Jesus, Uncles, Historical

• In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype in which a divine hero's birth is supernaturally predicted and conceived, the infant hero escapes attempts to kill him, demonstrates his precocious wisdom already as a child, receives a divine commission, defeats demons, wins acclaim, is hailed as king, then betrayed, losing popular favor, executed, often on a hilltop, and is vindicated and taken up to heaven.

  Robert M. Price

  Jesús, Reyes, Niños

  Opening Statement on Mars Hill Forum at Unitarian Church, Monclair, New Jersey, www.mars-hill-forum.com. January 11, 1997.

• Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

  Robert M. Price

  Jesus, Design, Historical

• The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.

  Robert M. Price

  Burden Of Proof, Religion, Doubt

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.75, Wildside Press LLC

• If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.

  Robert M. Price

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.117, Wildside Press LLC

• Me pregunto hasta qué punto es apropiado tratar de "convencer a alguien para que entre en el reino". Muchos apologistas niegan rotundamente tal acusación, pero no les creo. El tenor de casi toda la literatura apologética deja claro que esa es su intención.

  Robert M. Price

  Believe, Religion, Trying

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.63, Wildside Press LLC

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