Pascal Boyer Quotes

• [R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

  Pascal Boyer

  Intuition, Nihilism, Moral

  Pascal Boyer (2001). “Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors”, Random House (UK)

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• A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

  Pascal Boyer

  Traits, Cognitive

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• The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.

  Pascal Boyer

  Violence, Cost, Stakes

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