Dialog from the TV show Bones which features one of my favorite TV atheists, Dr. Temperance Brennan AKA "Bones":
Booth: Right now I’m more worried about a safe distance between you and me.
Bones: Why?
Booth: Because we’re going to a church, and you tend to get blasphemous in churches.
Bones: What? You’re afraid that if God smites me with lightning you could get hit?
Booth: Yeah, I’m usually standing right beside you.
Bones: The Greek god Zeus also used lightning to incinerate his enemies. Although, Zeus apparently had better aim than your God.
--Bones, Season 5, Episode 14, "The Devil in the Details"
But objective reality does not change because you refuse to accept it. The fact that you refuse to acknowledge a wall does not change the fact that it's a wall. And you shouldn't have to hit it to find that out.
--Leonard Pitts Jr., "Sorry, but you aren't entitled to your own facts", February 21, 2010
Whether a belief is consider to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
--Anthony Store, Feet of Clay
I never think delusion is okay.
--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America; October 14, 2009 appearance on The Daily Show
Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion.
--Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven, A Story of Violent Faith
