• Despite all claims to the contrary, belief in gods does not create or maintain superior societies. The pattern seen in our world is clear: the more belief and the more intense the belief, the more violence, more oppression, and more economic failure. Less belief and less intense belief mean more peace, more tolerance, and more economic success. One can look at modern immigration trends as well. The major flow of people is away from more-religious societies toward less-religious societies. Why is this? If more belief is better and if gods protect societies that worship the most, then shouldn't people be moving in the other direction?
• The way to bring people together who are separated by belief in a god is to get them to take that belief a little less seriously. The people of the Middle East need doubt. They need skepticism. So long as warring sides are 100 percent certain that their belief is true, they are unlikely to ever yield.
• Why do the analytical skills and skepticism that most people utilize when buying a house, car, or laptop vanish when religion comes up?
• Never make the mistake of thinking that we can simply poll the brightest people to determine if gods exist or not. Reality is not a popularity contest. Reality is what it is, regardless of who knows it.
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