I’ve just posted the first draft of an essay entitled “The Failure of Faith,” addressing an issue that has troubled me for some time, viz, how can intelligent people convince themselves to shut down their brains and believe the tripe that’s fed to them by religious leaders? It’s something I confess I will never understand, and I have no doubt I will piss off plenty of people with the sentiments and examples I’ve provided in the essay. Still, I think these are things that need saying, which is not to say that I’m the first or most prominent by any stretch of the imagination. I simply (and proudly) count myself in the company of folks like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchins. Thing of it is, it’s not about atheism per se, but rather the simple common sense of it all. It should be an interesting debate!