One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. …[This] convention protects them, and so they proceed with their blather unwhipped and almost unmolested, to the great damage of common sense and common decency. that they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly. Nor is there any visible intellectual dignity in theologians. Few of them know anything that is worth knowing, and not many of them are even honest. .H.l. Mencken
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The idea of respecting people who believe in different things than you is absurd. We should all know that religion is just one of the many things that people believe in. Religion has nothing to do with intelligence or how knowledgeable someone is, and it certainly does not help us with our education. If anything, religion only lowers the quality of our education by creating confusion. If we let believers get away with their blather, they will only hinder intelligent people from doing what they need to do to succeed.
Source: H.l. Mencken On Religion
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