The Faith Of Religion Is Belief On

Many Of My Fellow Atheists Consider All Talk Of 'spirituality' Or 'mysticism' To Be Synonymous With Mental Illness, Conscious Fraud, Or Self-deception. I Have Argued Elsewhere That This Is A Problem - Because Millions Of People Have Had Experiences For Which 'spiritual' And 'mystical' Seem The Only Terms Available.

Martin Luther And John Calvin Advocated The Wholesale Murder Of Heretics, Apostates, Jews, And Witches.

Religious Faith Is The One Species Of Human Ignorance That Will Not Admit Of Even The Possibility Of Correction.

Our Wills Are Simply Not Of Our Own Making. Thoughts And Intentions Emerge From Background Causes Of Which We Are Unaware And Over Which We Exert No Conscious Control. We Do Not Have The Freedom We Think We Have.

Either Our Wills Are Determined By Prior Causes And We Are Not Responsible For Them, Or They Are The Product Of Chance And We Are Not Responsible For Them.