Just as high-IQ persons are known to be susceptible to a variety of other mental disorders, from antisocial personality disorder to social anxiety disorder, Asperger syndrome to rumination syndrome, bipolar disorder to depression, they are also susceptible to the god delusion. Lord knows why!

RD: "Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, "sensible" religion may not be doing that. But it is making the world safe for fundamentalism by teaching children, from their earliest years, that unquestioning faith is a virtue."