So rafael wrote a journal entry about atheism and in a reply I called religion “obvious nonsense” and wondered why intelligent people would have anything to do with it[1]. Then Simon decided that he’d write an article answering my question.
It’s an interesting article. Personally I don’t find the arguments convincing – but it’s about Simon’s fatih not mine, so that’s OK. I should really spend time writing a detailed response. And I will. But not until I get the first draft of the Template Toolkit book off to O’Reilly.
Oh, there’s one error I can point out in Simon’s article immediately. He says that I’m not really interested in the answer to my question. I hope to persuade him that I am.
[1] Note, this is a move from my previous posiition which was that by believing in a religion a person went some way to proving that they weren’t intelligent.