The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances. George H. Smith More Quotes by George H. Smith More Quotes From George H. Smith A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof. George H. Smith burden-of-proof egalitarianism commitment To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life. George H. Smith irrationality human-life humans Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe. George H. Smith christianity natural men