(December 31, 2014 at 1:06 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I think the point that Weinberg was trying to make is that you take someone who normally does good things and expose him to religion (and probably of some extremist variety) and you'll see him start to do bad things. I don't think he means that the person doing bad things is still a good person.
I do agree with you, folks ought to be judged good or evil based on their actions, not their words.
It seems Weinberg is not familiar with Zimbardo's prison experiment. It is pretty easy to get otherwise good people to do bad things without religion.
