98 Vermes (2000).

Love thy neighbour

99 Hartung's paper was originally published in Skeptic 3: 4, 1995, but is now most readily available at http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/taboos/ltnOl.html.

100 Smith (1995).

101 Guardian, 12 March 2002: http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,664342,00.html.

102 N. D. Glenn, 'Interreligious marriage in the United States: patterns and recent trends', Journal of Marriage and the Family 44: 3, 1982, 555-66.

The moral Zeitgeist

103 http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/newlOc.html.

104 Huxley (1871).

105 http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/american-authors/19th-century/abraham-lincoln/the-writings-of-abraharn-lincoln-04/.

What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren't they atheists?

106 Bullock (1991).

107 Bullock (2005).

108 http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/1997/march97/holocaust.html. This article by Richard E. Smith, originally published in Freethought Today, March 1997, has a large number of relevant quotations from Hitler and other Nazis, giving their sources. Unless otherwise stated, my quotations are from Smith's article.

109 http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mischedj/ca_hitler.htrnl.

110 Bullock (2005: 96).

111 Adolf Hitler, speech of 12 April 1922. In Baynes (1942: 19–20).

112 Bullock (2005: 43).

113 This quotation, and the following one, are from Anne Nicol Gaylor's article on Hitler's religion, http://www.ffforg/fttoday/back/hitler.html.

114 http://www.contra-mundum.org/schirrmacher/NS_Religion.pdf.

Chapter 8: What's wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?

Fundamentalism and the subversion of science

115 From 'What is true?', ch. 1.2 of Dawkins (2003).

116 Both my quotations from Wise come from his contribution to the 1999 book In Six Days, an anthology of essays by young-Earth creationists (Ashton 1999).

The dark side of absolutism

117 Warraq (1995: 175).

118 John William Gott's imprisonment for calling Jesus a clown is mentioned in The Indypedia, published by the Independent, 29 April 2006. The attempted prosecution of the BBC for blasphemy is in BBC news, 10 Jan. 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/l/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4161109.stm.

119 http://adultthought.ucsd.edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban.html.

Faith and homosexuality

120 Hodges (1983).

121 This and the remaining quotations in this section are from the American Taliban site already listed; http://adultthought.ucsd.edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban.html.

122 http://adultthought.ucsd.edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban.html.

123 From Pastor Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church official website, godhatesfags.com: http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/jan2006/20060131_coretta-scott-king-funeral.pdf.

Faith and the sanctity of human life

124 See Mooney (2005). Also Silver (2006), which arrived when this book was in final proof, too late to be discussed as fully as I would have liked.

125 For an interesting analysis of what makes Texas different in this respect, see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/execution/readings/texas.html.

126 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker.

127 These Randall Terry quotes are from the same American Taliban site as before:

http://adultthought.ucsd.edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban.html.

128 Reported on Fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96286,00.html.

129 M. Stamp Dawkins (1980).

The Great Beethoven Fallacy

130 http://www.warroom.com/ethical.htm.

131 Medawar and Medawar (1977).

How 'moderation' in faith fosters fanaticism

132 Johann Hari's article, originally published in the Independent, 15 July 2005, can be found at http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=640.

133 Village Voice, 18 May 2004: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0420,perlstein,53582,l.html.

134 Harris (2004: 29).

135 Nasra Hassan, 'An arsenal of believers', New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2001. See also http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/011119_hassan.html.

Chapter 9: Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion

Physical and mental abuse

136 Reported by BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.Uk/l/hi/wales/901723.stm.

137 Loftus and Ketcham (1994).

138 See John Waters in the Irish Times: http://oneinfour.org/news/news2003/roots/.

139 Associated Press, 10 June 2005: http://www.rickross.com/reference/clergy/clergy426.html.

140 http://www.avl611.org/hell.html.

In defence of children

141 N. Humphrey, 'What shall we tell the children?', in Williams (1998); repr. in Humphrey (2002).

142 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/yoder.html.

An educational scandal

143 Guardian, 15 Jan. 2005: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,1389500,00.html.

144 Times Educational Supplement, 15 July 2005.

145 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/03/18/dol801.xml


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