Single-God Religions and Morals
Controversies and Philosophical Absurdities

By Vexen Crabtree 2004 Nov 01

The Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.'

"The God Delusion" by Prof. Richard Dawkins (2006)1

Blaise Pascal (he of the wager) said something similar: 'Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.'

"The God Delusion" by Prof. Richard Dawkins (2006)1

Christianity:

Infanticide and Heaven: If dead infants go to Heaven shouldn't parents selflessly sacrifice themselves to hell by killing their children? Lot and the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: In Genesis 18 and 19 Abraham's Attempted Sacrifice of His Son Isaac: Genesis 22:1-18 and Qur'an 37:99-113The Top Five Smitings from the Bible

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By Vexen Crabtree 2004 Nov 01
http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/morals.html

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Dawkins, Prof. Richard
The God Delusion (2006). Hardback. Published by Bantam Press, Transworld Publishers, Uxbridge Road, London, UK.

Footnotes

  1. Dawkins (2006) p249.^

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