Richard Dawkins, a man who has never met a faith he wouldn’t ridicule, names religion as the prime suspect in the WTC attacks:
As luck would have it, we have just the thing to hand: a ready-made system of mind-control which has been honed over centuries, handed down through generations. Millions of people have been brought up in it. It is called religion and, for reasons which one day we may understand, most people fall for it (nowhere more so than America itself, though the irony passes unnoticed). Now all we need is to round up a few of these faith-heads and give them flying lessons.
It’s an oversimplicfication. They died convinced of the righteousness of their cause, not because they couldn’t get laid. Ignoring Dawkins’ bombast, he has a point that people with no choices can be easily swayed by religous leaders for both good and evil ends.
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