Sunday, June 23, 2013
"... I imagine there are several varieties of religious faith, but that for most it amounts to what happens when the logical part of the brain suggests to you that it’s probably a good idea to suspend belief, withhold affirmation concerning the truth of a particular thing and the needy, sad, lonely, desperate part of the brain responds by insisting you believe in it anyway… in that sense faith is sort of like a threat, an ultimatum aimed at reality..."
