"Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.“


-Michael Shermer

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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

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