This is your own fear of being wrong talking. You got sold a club, well so what, most of the world's population get sold a club. It isn't that religious people cant be good or do good, THEY CAN. What we doubt as skeptics is where our species morality is really coming from.
I love my species evolutionary ability to be compassionate. I simply don't assign that good aspect of reality to ANY religion or holy writing. I assign that to our species INDIVIDUAL ability to value that good aspect of our species.
You cannot force religion out of existence, not any, but all of them teach tribalism to greater or lesser degrees and all of them as umbrella labels have multiple sub sects that all claim to be the correct interpretations of the core umbrella label.
No holy book or holy writing has the magic power of making an individual only do good. There is not one nation, friend or foe alike that does not have hospitals or prisons. What makes a human good is their own individual empathy as an individual, it is not coming from a super natural place.
I love my species evolutionary ability to be compassionate. I simply don't assign that good aspect of reality to ANY religion or holy writing. I assign that to our species INDIVIDUAL ability to value that good aspect of our species.
You cannot force religion out of existence, not any, but all of them teach tribalism to greater or lesser degrees and all of them as umbrella labels have multiple sub sects that all claim to be the correct interpretations of the core umbrella label.
No holy book or holy writing has the magic power of making an individual only do good. There is not one nation, friend or foe alike that does not have hospitals or prisons. What makes a human good is their own individual empathy as an individual, it is not coming from a super natural place.
