My anti-theistic perspective

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Do you not understand how childhood indoctrination works? A toddler can be told things which are filed permanently into his head, and are very hard to remove at any point in his life because he heard them before he had developed any reasoning capacity by which such dumb ideas could be screened out. This is why theists all believe such ideas, almost 1000 years after talk of fairies, dragons, and angry gods became no longer topics discussed among intellectuals. Only those who find themselves confronted with an intellectual and moral crisis on what they have believed can be set free of being ruled by dumb theistic ideas which they were taught when so young.

Yes, I used to be that "dumb"!

Oh, give me a break. That excuse can only go so far.

And you know this how? What are your credentials in psychology, neuroscience, or pedagody?

Me, I'm going to consider the thoughts of the experts on the issue first, and Sam Harris expresses this opinion rather strongly.