A fantastic article about the nature of belief: [View All]

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I love Andrew Brown.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/wormseyeview/story/0,,1462549,00.html

Snip:

"... we all feel that the religion that suits our temperament is the
true one, but we cannot all be right. This does not, however,
lead him to suppose that all belief is illusory. He argues that
spiritual states are real because they make a huge difference in the world.

"They do not do this by inculcating false belief, he says, but by
producing emotion: real energy and courage. So religious beliefs may
be deceptions, but they are not in any simple way self deceptions."