#indoctrination

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change."

"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."

"It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated."