Atheism, like religions, is neither good nor bad in itself. It's people that make up a system of ideas and it's people that are good and/or bad. I'm UU, right between the two and I've met Atheists and Christians on both sides of the spectrum. read more
Atheism, like religions, is neither good nor bad in itself. It’s people that make up a system of ideas and it’s people that are good and/or bad. I’m UU, right between the two and I’ve met Atheists and Christians on both sides of the spectrum. read more
January 7, 2015 Cephus 6 Comments A little while ago, Jerry Coyne, over on the Why Evolution is True Blog, asked if religion is good or bad for humanity. read more
My beef against religion is that for some religions in the modern world, like Islam and Catholicism, it’s easy to point to the bad stuff they do, and hard to find the good stuff, so the harmfulness of those faiths (and others like Scientology) seems self-evident. read more