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If There Is No God

A.21 Wrote: Jan 04, 2011 9:51 AM

Mr. Prager, I completely disagree with your article. Allow me to offer a different point of view. I will address each of your points. 1. You say without God there is no good or evil. I would assume you believe genocide, rape, slavery, and incest are all evil things. They are also actions condoned in the Old Testament by the Christian god. Truly, the only judges of what is good or evil are humans, and the perspective of what is good or evil changes with time as the needs of a society evolve. A book cannot be the sole judge of morality, especially a book that condones such atrocities. 2. You say without God there is no meaning to life. I say the only meaning anyone can have in this life is what you choose for yourself. I can choose...

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If There Is No God

We are constantly reminded about the destructive consequences of religion -- intolerance, hatred, division, inquisitions, persecutions of "heretics," holy wars. Though far from the whole story, they are, nevertheless, true. There have been many awful consequences of religion.

What one almost never hears described are the deleterious consequences of secularism -- the terrible developments that have accompanied the breakdown of traditional religion and belief in God. For every thousand students who learn about the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem Witch Trials, maybe two learn to associate Gulag, Auschwitz, The Cultural Revolution and the Cambodian genocide with secular regimes and...

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