(December 27, 2011 at 5:02 am)Chuck Wrote: In effect they are hiding behind the white lie "you are just as bad as we". It is telling that the best attack theists can come up amounts to a challenge to race to the bottom. One would think if they really value their religion for what it offers, rather than cling to it as but a shield of deceit against the need to grow up, then they give their religion more dignity than arguing for it from that dismal angle.
Yeah, its not a very convincing argument. Why not point to all the "good" things that religion might provide? I figure its probably because anything religion can provide, atheism can easily do better. Most of religion's "high" points are very much common courtesy moral values, which are laughably simple compared to real-world morality. So I guess resorting to "you're no better than me" is no surprise, then.
