Atrocious and Absurd

My apologies to anyone who does pop in here. It still remains rather shapeless, staggering between performance magic, scepticism about 'magick' and the supernatural, atheism, etc.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

I have just borrowed from the library - Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks - which the author says comes from James Randi's description of people who persist in believing in something ludicrous, however much evidence confronts them...

As you can see in a piece he wrote for The Guardian called

Dangerous Nonsense
Faith is not a form of mental fortitude, but an absurdity - which can give rise to atrocity