Bill Maher Spells It Out

[abaris]

Idiotic? How so? It follows directly from the argument I quoted. Are you saying that argument was idiotic?

In a manner of speaking, since I don't subscribe to the argument anyway. Your conclusion however was the cherry on top really painting it into the moron's corner.

As I always keep saying, remove religion and people will flock to other ideologies. Resentments and the sense of belonging to an exclusive group are already served by all kinds of people in a totally secular way. People you seem to listen to also without giving up your own kind of indoctrination. You're just adding that little xenophobic bit about the competing franchise.

Yeah, I said, absence of religion doesn't create pink elephants and fairies and everyone going for the group hug. They would just find other common causes to hate over, to exclude what's strange to them and to find scapegoats for what they perceive to be wrong with their lives.