Religion poisons everything book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. ![]() “In all areas except religion,” Richard Dawkins claimed in a blogged panel discussion back in 2010, “we believe what we believe as a result of evidence.” By contrast, he went on to say, religion is “a nonsensical enterprise” that “poisons everything.” It is a “delusion,” he wrote in, well, The God Delusion (, 28), a “persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.” According to his fellow New Atheist Sam Harris ( Letter to a Christian Nation, 230-231), “Faith is generally nothing more than the permission religious people give one another to believe things strongly without evidence.” In his bestselling book The End of Faith, Harris writes ![]()
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