Spurred by news of Louisiana's recent fundamentalist-drive blow against reason, I dug up a copy of Clifford's essay on belief. The first section was as lucid as I remember it. I recommend it, and its exhortation that permitting unsound beliefs damages all humanity. It is online here.
"He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end loving himself better than all." -- Aids to Reflection, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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