. . . I am convinced that defending the faith makes otherwise brilliant people look stupid. I mean it. That’s what faith does to a person. . .

Christians also live in two separate compartmentalized lives. In one life–their ordinary or working one–they live in reality by thinking for themselves and following the evidence wherever it leads as best as they can. But in their other life–their life of faith, the one they were raised to believe, the one that gives them their needed false hope, the one they prefer to be true–they abandon reality, thinking, and evidence altogether.

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