(November 22, 2010 at 10:31 pm)Skipper Wrote: I'm not claiming people who are non-religious can't be evil, they can, but that's not the point here at all.
That's not what i cargued either at all.
You said all the good of religion can come from secular means, making it pointless. I argued that all the evil it does can also be done through secular means. Does that make this evil pointless as well ?
Can you answer the priest scandals with "well, you can have pedophiles without religion, so there's obviously nothing wrong with the system" ? Of course not. And by the exact same logic, you cannot say "charities can exist without religion, so religion obviously does not encourage charity". Religion is a factor in people's behavior, for both good and bad things.
Again, this is a double standard.