The Problem With Religion, Because It's Been

Faith Drives A Wedge Between Ethics And Suffering. Where Certain Actions Cause No Suffering At All, Religious Dogmatists Still Maintain That They Are Evil And Worthy Of Punishment. . . . And Yet, Where Suffering And Death Are Found In Abundance Their Causes Are Often Deemed To Be Good. . . . This Inversion Of Priorities Not Only Victimizes Innocent People And Squanders Scarce Resources; It Completely Falsifies Our Ethics.

It Is Time We Admitted That We Are Not At War With “terrorism.” We Are At War With Islam.

Science Does Not Limit Itself Merely To What Is Currently Verifiable. But It Is Interested In Questions That Are Potentially Verifiable (or, Rather, Falsifiable).

Where We Have Reasons For What We Believe, We Have No Need Of Faith; Where We Have No Reasons, We Have Lost Both Our Connection To The World And To One Another.

It Is Rather More Noble To Help People Purely Out Of Concern For Their Suffering Than It Is To Help Them Because You Think The Creator Of The Universe Wants You To Do It, Or Will Reward You For Doing It, Or Will Punish You For Not Doing It. The Problem With This Linkage Between Religion And Morality Is That It Gives People Bad Reasons To Help Other Human Beings When Good Reasons Are Available.