CuriousObserver
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...complaining about the “atheists"? “Now here’s the third and last thing that tees me off about the atheist campaign. Adults believe in God in roughly the same way that young children believe in Father Christmas and the tooth fairy, and for very similar reasons. And before the Jacqueline Callejas of this country jump down my throat, by this I am not going one further than the atheists with their bus advertising and saying that God is just about as real as the mythical creature this country calls Krismiss Fader, rather than than that he ‘probably’ doesn’t exist. No. What I am saying is that the process of belief is much the same: children believe in Father Christmas because that is the received wisdom in their world, and because authorities higher than they are have assured them that he exists and they have no reason to question that authority. Children also need to believe in Father Christmas because it makes their world more interesting and gives them something to look forward to when they petition him with their hopes and desires.”
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1542
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