Nerdy Science Blog

All attempts to reconcile faith with science and reason are consigned to failure and ridicule for precisely these reasons.  I read, for example, of some ecumenical conference of Christians who desire to show their broad-mindedness and invite some physicists along.  But I am compelled to remember what I know — which is that there would be no such churches in the first place if humanity had not been afraid of the weather, the dark, the plague, the eclipse, and all manner of other things now easily explicable.  And also if humanity had not been compelled, on pain of extremely agonizing consequences, to pay the exorbitant tithes and taxes that raised the imposing edifices of religion.

– Christopher Hitchens “God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”

I wouldn’t be going to school if that happens.

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