“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.” WellsMightCultureBeliefCommonDemandIllusionContemporaryCommon SensePretendingSystematicFluffy Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense