In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
Christopher HitchensIf religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
Christopher Hitchens