The Christian delusion: Why faith fails

Why there is so much intense animal suffering if a perfectly good and omnipotent God exists.

Skepticism is not a belief system. It's an approach to truth claims

Human beings are surprisingly gullible creatures. The ability to think skeptically is not innate; it requires practice.

Bias is our default setting, and most of the distortions happen below the level of conscious awareness.

Christianity in American and other Western societies, and other religions in other societies, actively and intentionally pursues the
same course, creating a pervasive and largely taken-for-granted religious worldview that generally escapes criticism, since it escapes notice.

We have no way of knowing what got added to the version we now have in the Bible

Rewarding animals in a heaven made for them simply does not make their sufferings on earth morally justifiable.

job 9:7, "He [God] can command the sun not to rise." That God would direct his command at the sun rather than the earth implies a belief in a stationary earth.

Religious faiths are not chosen by us. They are given to us. We inherit them. They are caught-not taught.

One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance