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Minus the very strong assumption that religion is only possible source of morality.

• TheSpiceIsLife 3y ago
  Go right ahead and ignore my second sentence.
• marcosdumay 3y ago
  And the assumption that religion is not only moral on average (what's questionable), but also able to stay moral while given extraordinary power (shown to be false every single time people tried).
  • gryfft 3y ago
    Ah, but "the problem with the world today is that everyone else doesn't believe what my religion teaches" has an enormous feature that your arguments do not: It gives the one who holds this belief the comfort that _they_ have done everything that can and everything they should; all that is left is to be publicly smug. This is much easier to do than engaging closely with complicated ideas, and crucially can never result in deciding that it's necessary to go through the pain of changing one's own behavior or beliefs.
    • marcosdumay 3y ago
      Funny thing is that this thought (the one you quote) is evil all by itself. No external help needed.