| ManusJustus said: Religion had a lot of uses in the past. How else could you convince a bunch of primitive cave men not to kill, rape, and steal from each other without telling them that a magical being would punish them (or in the case of Jesus and the Pharoahs, that they were god)? |
You tell them that a physical being would punish them. It's called the police, or court, or a militia, or a tribunal, or whatever you want. We still have a bunch of primitive cave men roaming our streets murdering and raping, and we lock them up. And they're not atheists.
The % of atheists in the prison population is smaller than the % of atheists out on the streets. In fact, there are more Scientologists in prison than atheists in prison, even though atheists outnumber Scientologists out on the streets. Religion can do good (like give me Al Green), but there are some problems that arise when you convince the majority of people that there is an invisible magical law that is more important than the laws of the community that they vote on, especially when the law of G-d can forgive every sin ever.
