Gullible citizens are a demagogue’s dream. - John Allen Paulos

Confirmation of a person’s unreliable statement by another unreliable person makes the statement even less reliable.

It’s become somewhat fashionable to say that religion and science are growing together and are no longer incompatible. This convergence is, in my opinion, illusory. In fact, I don’t believe that any attempt to combine these very disparate bodies of ideas can succeed intellectually.

There is a fine line between public expressions of faith and aggressive declarations thereof, and religious tolerance is inversely proportional to the latter.