How can my fellow citizens be so unrelentingly stupid? (via)

Update: Over the course of the day, I’ve started formulating a much larger and more thoughtful post regarding the subject of religion than I’m prepared, at the moment, to write here. It calls to mind one of the things I said to my good friend Catherine last fall, which is, “Religion is the most important dimension of human existence we can ever understand..” I stand by those words, today.