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Book: Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
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  1. Terry Eagleton _ Reason, Faith, and Revolution:

    {A} great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.
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  2. Terry Eagleton _ Reason, Faith, and Revolution:

    All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.
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  3. Terry Eagleton _ Reason, Faith, and Revolution:

    Astonishingly, we are saved not by a special apparatus known as religion, but by the quality of our everyday relations with one another.
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  4. Terry Eagleton _ Reason, Faith, and Revolution:

    The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
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  5. Terry Eagleton _ Reason, Faith, and Revolution:

    The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.
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  6. Terry Eagleton _ Reason, Faith, and Revolution:

    Negativity is often looked upon {in the USA} as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.
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