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"...believing in God is seen as the logical equivalent to believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. If you think I am totally deluded because of my beliefs, I would ask that y…

Welcome to the mirror world, where a lie isn't a lie if you put the word "faith" in front of it! Is this kinda like "Simon Says"? Up is down -- oops, matter of faith, so I'm okay! …

"Grandma went to heaven" is a statement of fact about a very specific matter that is either true or false. The person uttering it has not seen, heard, smelled, or touched a single …

No, he didn't tell a lie. Religion is silly. You don't have to "know" something is false to know if it's silly. Do I have a singing purple leprechaun on my desk? Well, think before…

But there's certainly also the possibility that the parent thinks he believes it, although all of his actions and other beliefs reveal that he doesn't believe it. Daniel Dennett ha…

Steven Pinker does a pretty admirable job of running down some ideas on swearing: http://www.tnr.com/currentissue/story.html?id=246c0071-a9cd-...