"Faith manages to brainwash for its own sake especially the brains of children to such a large extent, that it is hard to undermine it. But what is faith after all? Faith is a state of mind that brings people to agree about something no matter what that something is despite a total absence of evidence supporting it. Had there been good supporting evidence, there would have been no need in faith, since the evidence compels us to agree on that anyway. This is the reason why the worthless saying, heard so often, as though "Evolution itself is a matter of faith" is so senseless. People do not believe in evolution because their arbitrariness leads them to believe in it, but since there is plenty of evidence available for the public."
"Faith cannot move mountains (despite the fact that generation of children heard such protestations as if it can, and believed in them) but it can definitely drive people to make such stupid things that are so dangerous, that it seems to me that faith should be classified as a mental illness. It brings people to believe in no matter what with such enormous intensity, that in extreme cases they may kill and be killed without any other justification." (Richard Dawkins) |
