I don't have much truck with the ' religion is the cause of most of our wars' school of thought because that is manifestly done by mad, manipulative and power-hungry men who cloak their ambition in God.
-- Terry Pratchett, in
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time--I-think-exist.html (Thanks I think to
supergee)
More or less germane to my recent reading, including Breaking the Spell by D. Dennett and Ursula Vernon's
rant in response to some of the comments on
St. Snargus and the Trout