Yes I am well aware that he advocated against religion but was pro spirituality.

The thing about religion and science is - religious scientists believe that absurd things in religious books are just a metaphysical explanation, though if you read it you just can not give a second meaning to it. Or they believe that god and his books exists outside of logical explanation. There are lots of religious people who practiced science and made their contribution. If mistakes like that exist in such a book of “extraordinary claims”, with some shallow but definitely not “extraordinary evidences”, that is just an “intellectual mistake” to believe it.

We already know that ppl despite all the intellect will be prone to believe what they were programmed for in their young age.

Because religion contradicts scientific approach to thinking. I personally like the way in which Carl Sagan gets rid of all the “noise” information when investigating how the world works. Religion is a noise

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