Jerry Coyne Quote

As the journalist Nick Cohen noted about accusations that atheism is like religion, It's not a charge I'd throw around if I were seeking to defend faith. When people say of dozens of political and cultural movements from monetarism to Marxism that their followers treat their cause 'like a religion,' they never mean it as a compliment. They mean that dumb obedience to higher authority and an obstinate attachment to dogma mark its adherents.

p. 218 - Faith vs. Fact (2015)