Are All Believers Insane?

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3. I find his discussion of belief interesting

and how pervasive it is in our society. And how dreary our world would be without unfounded belief.

I think he is unfair to atheists, but I do think atheism is a belief system (I think about belief systems in the mathematical sense). This is why I didn't post it in Religion, as that forum has a significant percentage of Atheist posters. I can personally attest to the fact that people's feelings can be badly hurt by inanities - I'd say it is extremely common.

To understand what he is saying, I think you have to appreciate the spirit in which it was written - which is with a fair amount of humor/irony/tongue-in-check in it. I would have loved to have heard it live.