Faith is the great cop-out the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of even perhaps because of the lack of evidence.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
Complex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple statistically probable things.
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
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