Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of law, due process, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, separation of church and state, and separation of government powers into branches that oversee each other's authority.
Peter BoghossianWhen one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.
Peter BoghossianChristians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.
Peter BoghossianFaith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.
Peter Boghossian