Watch out, you could get hooked on that shit.

Friend and scholar Ed Humes writes about Belief Addiction for the Huffington Post:

Belief untempered by reason, however, has not served us well, bringing crusades, the KKK, Nazism, jihad and, yes, an Iraq war launched against the wrong adversary for the wrong reasons with the wrong expectations (remember the cakewalk? the roses that would be tossed at our soldiers’ feet?) by a president with strong beliefs but little knowledge. Belief without reason is ignorance — dangerous, passionate, addictive … Read more at the Post.

BTW: My new favorite TV program is Johnathan Miller’s A Brief History of Disbelief. Aired on BBC in 2005, it is just making it across the pond this year. But predictably, many PBS stations have not picked it up. Seek it out at abriefhistoryofdisbelief.org, which offers a calendar of air dates. (In LA there’s one episode left to air — Thursday night, 9 pm, KLCS.)