You don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

"You don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense to do massively crazy things. And — this is the worst of it — religious faith can give people a sort of hyperbolic confidence, an utter unconcern about whether they might be making a mistake, that enables acts of inhumanity that would otherwise be unthinkable."
(Daniel Dennett, Globe & Mail, South Africa)

NSS Newsline 02 May 2008