People often tell themselves lies, in order to reach what they consider acceptance in difficult situations. In reality, they fool themselves into believing they are healed, until that lie is corrected by time, further information or their own personal growth. True healing comes when we learn to not avoid truth, but face it. Only then will we be set free.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Acceptance Being Honest Being Real Brutal Truth Clarity Genuine Feelings Happiness Healing Joy Lies Occam S Razor Scars Self Introspection Stuck Truth

Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

~ David G. Mcafee

David G. Mcafee Apologetics Apologist Empty Tomb Fake Jesus Occam S Razor Resurrection

Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way:What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely agreed with each other? Even with this best possible analogy to subjective religious experiences we would still have a reason to think the lack of oxygen caused them all to hallucinate.

~ John W. Loftus

John W. Loftus Anecdotal Evidence Atheism Hallucination Occam S Razor Reason Religious Experience Subjective Experience Subjective Religious Experience

Simple is never that simple.

~ Philip Roth

Philip Roth Complexity Occam S Razor Simplicity