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@danieldennett Me—"Whadaya reckon they turned the offices of the Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei [Inquisition] into?" Friend—"A burns ward?"

@danieldennett Hardly takes a critical genius to see the flimsy foundations of faith underpinning both.Could be a few dozen affordable homes

Are you leaving #Tufts for #UBC, @danieldennett? Did I miss a joke, or is this an announcement? :) @ubcnews @VancouverSun #WishfulThinking

@iizcatarrhine It is, of course, figurative. It's perfectly understandable to say something is insane eg religion @danieldennett

@iizcatarrhine Yes, you too can use it so. But with much less credibility (hopefully aware of the irony of claiming "your" reason is insane)

@iizcatarrhine This is not a challenge in response to your suggestion - I'm just interested; have you read Dennett's Breaking the Spell?

@iizcatarrhine Forgive the following additional tweets, and in return perhaps you could recommend...

@iizcatarrhine … a C.S. Lewis text that is the core of his argument (I’m aware of him being someone liked by theists) … Breaking the Spell…

@iizcatarrhine ..I think the most challenging of 4 horsemen’s books to theists. It is non-polemic, not based on the repeated arguments, but

@iizcatarrhine … challenges on an emotional level. I wouldn’t be able to say what the core argument is (appart from appealing to … reason)