Mid-west Humanists – An Irish Atheist Community

In today’s Comment is Free AC Grayling makes the point I was trying to make in this post. As you might expect he does a much better job than I did.

Let us look at some comparisons. In Afghanistan the Taliban stop girls going to school, beat up women who show a millimeter of skin, ban music, kill gays, and in general force their choice of life and belief on everyone, thus illustrating the less charming aspects of enforced observance of religious orthodoxy under which most of humanity has suffered for most of history. By comparison, secular liberals of Europe and North America say that they think religion is a load of nonsense and that religious folk should keep their fantasies to themselves. Some comparison, eh? Some jihad! Its effectiveness, though, is a sign of insecurity among the faithful. Mark Twain defined faith as “believing what you know ain’t so”, and the level of insecurity among the faithful when criticised suggests that almost all of them really agree.

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