It's been over a century since Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God. Apparently the news of His demise has not reached the general population. In the ensuing century we've had people believe in the myth of racial superiority, scientology, spaceships in comets, death cults, lizard people, neo-paganism, crystals, the Unification Church, the Urantia Book, divination, astrology, voodoo, spiritism, the new world order, aliens, and countless other nutty things. Uniformly the adherents of these weird beliefs are totally convinced that they are right, they will (and often do) die for their beliefs.

Will we believe just about anything? Apparently yes. And we seem remarkably capable of seeing the other guy's belief as silly while not examining our own. What is it that safeguards us from such stupidity? Critical thinking and a fierce commitment to the impartial examination of claims. As soon as we set up a realm of human experience (faith) and make it exempt from rationality we set ourselves up to waste a lot of time, and possibly our lives, in the pursuit of silliness.