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What can we make of these weird psychological phenomena? All I can say is: Thank heaven, religion is dying rapidly in America, as in most of western civilization. Increasingly, we needn't wonder why believers worship a monster.
(Haught is editor emeritus of West Virginia's largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry magazine. As a blogger at a dozen websites, he has 1,200 essays online.)
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