Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers Said What Now?
"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." — Dan Barker, former preacher, musician (b. 25 Jun 1949)


When in my early adolescence I started asking my Sunday school teacher questions about my religion and her answer was 'you just have to have faith', which meant nothing. That was the beginning of the end for religion for me.