Sam harris, How the Sausage of faith Is Made
November 7, 2015 at 6:28 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2015 at 6:29 pm by Atheistoz.)
Almost every pro-religious argument I've seen asserts that religion has a moral value that society benefits from. Even if proponents concede that the truth value of religion is low, they remain proponents by saying that the moral value is high. In other words, they fall back on saying that religion plays an important function in society even if it is factually wrong.
I know a priori that I don't need a faith to be a positive component of my environment. My morality emerges from my empathy, my ego, and my reasoning. If it can work for me, it can work for others, and for society as a whole. For me, the recognition of this does away with religion's final handhold, its moral monopoly. The whole thing is superfluous to me.
