That doesn't sound to me like a very honest way of interpreting the quote. It's one thing to laud an appropriate degree of deference to evidence, and another to praise acceptance of a belief on little or no strong evidence.
Upvoted the quote. It can be a fun exercise to find rationality lessons in unlikely sources. (Last thread someone posted a Baron Harkonnen quote and it got many upvotes. Of course, it wasn't explicitely marked as Baron Harkonnen quote, just as a Dune quote, so I wonder how many people realized.)
After all, within the fictional narrative in which the Jesus thing is true, those other people were better at changing their minds than the apostles he was addressing.
Here's the new quotes thread.
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