As A Man Believes, So He Will

Indeed, What Is Startling About The Notion Of A Victimless Crime Is That Even When The Behavior In Question Is Genuinely Victimless, Its Criminality Is Still Affirmed By Those Who Are Eager To Punish It. It Is In Such Cases That The True Genius Lurking Behind Many Of Our Laws Stands Revealed. The Idea Of A Victimless Crime Is Nothing More Than A Judicial Reprise Of The Christian Notion Of Sin.

If We Cannot Find Our Way To A Time When Most Of Us Are Willing To Admit That, At The Very Least, We Are Not Sure Whether Or Not God Wrote Some Of Our Books, Then We Need Only Count The Days To Armageddon-because God Has Given Us Far Many More Reasons To Kill One Another Than To Turn The Other Cheek.

Indeed, Religion Allows People To Imagine That Their Concerns Are Moral When They Are Highly Immoral - That Is, When Pressing These Concerns Inflicts Unnecessary And Appalling Suffering On Innocent Human Beings. This Explains Why Christians Like Yourself Expend More "moral" Energy Opposing Abortion Than Fighting Genocide. It Explains Why You Are More Concerned About Human Embryos Than About The Lifesaving Promise Of Stem-cell Research. And It Explains Why You Can Preach Against Condom Use In Sub-saharan Africa While Millions Die From Aids There Each Year. (25)

Values Reduce To Facts About The Well-being Of Conscious Creatures.

We Have Christians Against Muslims Against Jews. They're Making Incompatible Claims On Real Estate In The Middle East As Though God Were Some Kind Of Omniscient Real Estate Broker Parsing Out Parcels Of Land To His Chosen Flock. People Are Literally Dying Over Ancient Literature.