indeed

[lauralh]

Somehow the library system fucked up its hold list and let me check out God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. I blazed through it in one night and am currently reading it more leisurely, for such gems as this:

Actually the "leap of faith" - to give it the memorable name that Kierkegaard bestowed upon it - is an imposture. As he himself pointed out, it is not a "leap" that can be made once and for all. It is a leap that has to go on and on being performed, in spite of mounting evidence to the contrary. This effort is actually too much for the human mind, and leads to delusions and manias... Now that religion's monopoly has been broken, it is within the compass of any human being to see these evidences and proofs* as the feeble-minded inventions they are.

Also of course the chapter "Why Heaven Hates Ham."

* including arguments from design, revelations, punishments, and miracles.