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Thank you for sharing that with us. It amazes me what people will do in the name of religion!

"What is it about religion that destroys people's minds?"

The assumption here is that people's minds would otherwise be sound absent the corrosive influence of religion. I tend to see this slightly differently: many people's minds are feeble to begin with. Religion preys upon these minds and renders them more feeble.

For atheism to succeed in its battle against religion, either the feeble-minded must be somehow inoculated against this disease or their numbers must diminish. Since the latter is not realistic, we need to come up with a vaccine.

The feeble-minded are not willing or able to receive a healthy dose of reason. You're going to have to settle for something less than that ideal. If reality TV, for example, is the new opium of the masses, let's at least be happy that its effects are less dangerous than those of religion.

I often sense on this blog that atheists will accept nothing less than total victory, like the allies in WWII. Here, as there, something short of total victory might be worth considering.

I think it's the energy expensive nature of the brain - for beleivers, in addition to the brain's energy consumption for regulating the body and being sentient - believers have to expend a lot of energy to maintain their religious delusions and in doing so, they have to reject a lot of reality, history, science, logic

I think this increases the energy opertating brain cost and the impact is less brain runtime for critical thinking and general intelligence