Who Said That?

"Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals.  It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me.  Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated."

OK . . .  Who said that?  Please no cheating or google searches.  Please leave your guess in the comments section. 

Update on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 09:55AM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from the mad (and from the photo, quite blitzed) atheist Christopher Hitchens.  It comes from an interview he did on the Penn & Teller show:  Bull____!, Season 3, Episode 5: "Holier Than Thou" (05-23-2005).

Comments

[Joshua L.]

Richard Dawkins?

[Greg Weaver]

my guess is richard dawkins, too.

[Michael A. Vickers]

Dawkins or P.Z. Myers.

[Jim Vellenga]

I was going to say Dawkins as well, or Hitchens or others of that camp.

[Cheryl]

Oprah Winfrey speaking to her New Age gurus.

[Philip Walker]

Does Dawkins get translated into American? (Seriously; "skepticism" is the US spelling, "scepticism" is the UK spelling.) As a compromise, how's about Christopher Hitchens?

[Paul C. Quillman]

Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, or Sam Harris

[presbyterian_keith]

I say Richie Dawkins too.

[M_MAn]

Hitchens

[timinater]

Dawkins

[Brent Emerson]

The statement is neither very unique nor very intelligent and it has probably been uttered by countless smug pseudo-intellectuals. My guess is one of the new atheist poster boys.

[JimmyJamf]

Sounds like Hitchens to me. He's British and he's an atheist, two reasons to be snide.

[Charles S.]

Christopher Hitchens

[Bryan]

Ayn Rand?

["lee n. field"]

"Ayn Rand?"

Her mouthpiece, John Galt, somewhere in his 70 page speech that everyone skips? :-)

[ECHock]

This venting about faith sounds like the humanist polemicist, Christopher Hitchens, probably from his antitheist book,"God is not Great."

[David Taylor]

Sounds like Hitchens to me too. Now who said this:

'Faith is the volitional assent to understood propositions'?

[proslogion]

Hitchens or maybe Dan Barker?

[Wyldeirishman]

Carl Sagan?

[Jordan]

At first I thought it was Sartre, translated by an American, then I recognized who it was.

He/She is already on here, if I may say that.