Posts About Agnostic/Atheist
Religion Messes Up and Straightens Out the World
1922 came to my mind, Hitch, when I read this of yours: “Religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.” But before I get into that, I hasten to address the two challenges you’ve put to us “On Faith” panelists: 1) “Can [anybody] name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person, that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever?” Of course not! But consider what your statement concedes: Such moral statements and...
