Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. (Michael Shermer)

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

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