Jeffrey Tayler Quotes

• Mis escritos derivan de la convicción que concebí durante mis años universitarios: uno debe llevar su vida como si fuera el protagonista de una novela épica, con el desenlace predeterminado y capítulo tras capítulo de acontecimientos edificantes, traumáticos y estimulantes que hay que sufrir. Como el final se conoce de antemano, hay que intentar experimentar lo máximo posible en el breve tiempo asignado. Escribir es una forma de asegurarse de que se presta suficiente atención a lo largo del camino para comprender lo que se ve.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Writing, Epic, College

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• Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Religious, Zero, Elements

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• A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Our World, Goal, Atheism

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• Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Religious, Art, Law

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