The most insightful statement Pope Francis has made

“Reality,” [Pope Francis] told a large group of young people, “is superior to ideas.”

This is coming from the absolute leader of the Roman Catholic Church, which for two millennia has tried to fit real life onto the procrustean bed of dogma -- often with horrible disastrous results -- inquisition anyone?

What a concise statement of where we all go astray. The real horrors of mankind come when we attempt to impose an abstract idea, be it religion, communism, fascism, or even spreading of democracy, by force.

Richard Dawkins  and others' attack on religion is not really an attack on just religion, it is an attack on all attempts to shoehorn real peoples' lives into an abstract idea, be it religion, communism, fascism or even spreading democracy.