From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
> Olga Bourlin wrote:
> > A few years ago Nobel Laureate (Physics) Steven Weinberg said, "With or
> > without religion, you will have good people doing good things and evil
> > people doing evil things, but for good people to do evil things, that
takes
> > religion."
> I thought it just took mistaken thinking or irrationality
> generally. And of course it is interesting to try to pin down
> what "good people" are and are not.
But isn't supernaturalism "mistaken thinking" as well as irrational?
Anyway, it's just a quote - not a treatise. Something rings true for me in
that quote. Pascal put it even more succinctly: "Men never do evil so
completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Olga
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