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Either Our Wills Are Determined By Prior Causes And We Are Not Responsible For Them, Or They Are The Product Of Chance And We Are Not Responsible For Them.

That Religion May Have Served Some Necessary Function For Us In The Past Does Not Preclude The Possibility That It Is Now The Greatest Impediment To Our Building A Global Civilization.

Every One Of The World's "great" Religions Utterly Trivializes The Immensity And Beauty Of The Cosmos. Books Like The Bible And The Koran Get Almost Every Significant Fact About Us And Our World Wrong. Every Scientific Domain -- From Cosmology To Psychology To Economics -- Has Superseded And Surpassed The Wisdom Of Scripture. Everything Of Value That People Get From Religion Can Be Had More Honestly, Without Presuming Anything On Insufficient Evidence. The Rest Is Self-deception, Set To Music.

Unlike Statements Of Fact, Which Require No Further Work On Our Part, Lies Must Be Continually Protected From Collisions With Reality.

The Same Comparison Holds True Within The United States Itself: Southern And Midwestern States, Characterized By The Highest Levels Of Religious Literalism, Are Especially Plagued By [high Rates Of Homicide, Abortion, Teen Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Disease, And Infant Mortality], While The Comparatively Secular States Of The Northeast Conform To European Standards.