If you’re religious, if you believe in God, it’s because....

.....you’re too weak-willed to think carefully for yourself in light of the evidence. And then you treat this vice as if it were a virtue, calling it “faith,” and in the process open the door to all kinds of dangerous views, which now can be legitimately embraced “on faith”—in other words, for no good reason.

To be blunt, I am frustrated with this tendency to identify the line between good and evil (or rational and irrational) with the line between theism and atheism, whether this is done in religion’s favor or against it. If readers come away convinced that this tendency is a mistake, I’ll consider the book a success.

Shorter Eric Reitan: Stop making fun of the weak-willed!