It’s a bit shocking that you don’t value the nature of understanding things. Either something is accurate or inaccurate, valid or invalid — or we don’t have an answer for something (nobody knows what caused the Big Bang, for example). Gee, I don’t think I would want you on a jury if you’re so easily swayed by things that are not true!

“To maintain my sanity I require my intellect to be paired with faith.” Permit me to rewrite that: “To maintain my sanity I require my intellect to be paired with make-believe.” How does religious make-believe strengthen or fortify the intellect? How does believing in things that are not true — the religious use of the word “faith” conveys this — attractive? Better question: How is one’s sanity hampered or threatened or weakened without religious belief?

What you see when you look up at the night sky is real and true; stories about angels and talking corpses are not real and false. I fail to see how hitching one’s wagon to what isn’t true is helpful or inspiring in life. We’re told that a certain female gave birth to a child without first having had sex with a male. This story is false because of what is commonly understood about human reproduction — and yet millions want to defy common sense and knowledge in order to embrace something that isn’t true. Fascinating.