“In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.”
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It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
