The God delusion

Once infected, the child will grow up and infect the next generation with the same nonsense, whatever it happens to be.

‘Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful
without having to believe that there are
fairies at the bottom of it too?’

It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God – imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant – and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we’d be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?

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

Sexual lust is the driving force behind a large proportion of human ambition and struggle, and much of it constitutes a misfiring.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
–OSCAR WILDE

Polyamory is the belief that one can simultaneously love several members of the opposite sex, just as one can love more than one wine, composer, book or sport.

Nevertheless, it may be that the origin of life is not the only major gap in the evolutionary story that is bridged by sheer luck, anthropically justified.

‘If you have Mozart to listen to, why would you need God?’

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them.