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When Considering The Truth Of A Proposition, One Is Either Engaged In An Honest Appraisal Of The Evidence And Logical Arguments, Or One Isn't. Religion Is One Area Of Our Lives Where People Imagine That Some Other Standard Of Intellectual Integrity Applies.

It Is Difficult To Think Of Anything More Important Than Providing The Best Education Possible For Our Children. They Will Develop The Next Technologies, Medical Cures, And Global Industries, While Mitigating Their Unintended Effects, Or They Will Fail To Do These Things And Consign Us All To Oblivion.

The Problem Is That Religion Tends To Give People Bad Reasons To Be Good.

The Problem That Religious Moderation Poses For All Of Us Is That It Does Not Permit Anything Very Critical To Be Said About Religious Literalism.

The Problem With Religion, Because It's Been Sheltered From Criticism, Is That It Allows People To Believe En Masse What Only Idiots Or Lunatics Could Believe In Isolation.