James Randi has shunned faith since he was a kid spending collection plate money on ice cream. "If my dad and mom are up there someplace... I ask them to forgive me." Read more at BigThink.com:...
========== The term "bright" I don’t much care for,
but hey, we did the best we could with it. I was with Richard Dawkins in Clearwater,
Florida and a few other people who brainstormed and came up with idea of having the "brights." I think I was maybe the third or fourth person
to sign the membership roster. And a "bright" is someone who thinks logically
and rationally; bases his or her decisions on rationality, upon logic, and upon evidence—that’s
the major thing right there. And if we don’t have evidence, we can express
our belief or lack of belief in it, but it has to be provisional. I believe that this is probably true, though
I don’t have any evidence for or against. It’s a perfectly safe statement. And so, brights ba...