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Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, t...more

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[W]e may now be on the threshold of a new kind of genetic takeover. DNA replicators built 'survival machines' for themselves — the bodies of living or...more

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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

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The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to...more