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.

There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe.

The connections among morality, prudence, and religion are complicated and beyond my concerns here. I would like to counter, however, the claim regularly made by religious people that atheists and agnostics are somehow less moral or law-abiding than they. There is absolutely no evidence for this, and I suspect whatever average distance there is along the nebulous dimension of morality has the opposite algebraic sign.