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None of the theories of the transmission of religious belief favoured by anti-theists work. Religious belief is not a marker of stupidity. In this country, among the under thirties, it is most common in those with a university education. Nor is it transmitted by brainwashing. But if religion is natural, none of this proves it is necessary, nor that it is impossible to suppress…
—Andrew Brown, editor of the Guardian’s Comment is free section, has stirred up quite a conversation with his “Are science and atheism compatible?” article — saying that science has as much ability to bring as much discomfort to dogmatic non-believers as it does to the most religious.
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