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\u201cIdeologue Ralph Nader\u2019s bestseller Unsafe at Any Speed<\/em> raised consciousness about the very real dangers of the automobile; ideologue Richard Dawkins\u2019s bestseller The God Delusion<\/em> raises our consciousness about the very real dangers of religious dogma. Religion, like the automobile, may lead to tens of thousands of pointless deaths every year. Religions, however, are even more valuable than the automobile to humanity. At the price of the \u201csmog\u201d of sometimes misleading superstition, religions keep the prosocial emotions in consciousness. Society ignores the emotional brain at its peril, and both science and society need to work to make automobiles and religions safer.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2014 George E. Vaillant, Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith<\/a>\"\"
<\/em>(New York: Broadway Books, 2008) p.19.<\/div>\n
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