Editing Umberto Eco (section)

== Religious views ==
During his university studies, Eco ceased to believe in God and left the [[Catholic Church]]. He helped co-found the Italian skeptic organization ''[[CICAP|Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze]]'' (Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences).<ref name="GuardianNaples2005">{{cite news|last=McMahon|first=Barbara|date=6 October 2005|title=No blood, sweat or tears|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/06/worlddispatch.italy|access-date=28 July 2009|archive-date=9 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909025113/http://www.massimopolidoro.com/eng/biography/e-bioindex.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Time05">{{Citation|last=Israely|first=Jeff|title=A Resounding Eco|date=5 June 2005|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1069054-2,00.html|newspaper=Time|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111155317/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C1069054-1%2C00.html|quote=His new book touches on politics, but also on faith. Raised Catholic, Eco has long since left the church. 'Even though I'm still in love with that world, I stopped believing in God in my 20s after my doctoral studies on St. Thomas Aquinas. You could say he miraculously cured me of my faith,...{{'-}}|access-date=1 June 2007|archive-date=11 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="Liukkonen03">{{cite web|last=Liukkonen|first=Petri|title=Umberto Eco|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ueco.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060804230008/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ueco.htm|archive-date=4 August 2006|website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi)|publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library|location=Finland}}</ref>