[ExI] Fw: Re: atheists declare religions as scams.

[John Clark]

On Jan 12, 2011, at 2:34 AM, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> Faith in god, like many things, can be used for good or ill.  Just because we
> see how it is so often (arguably the majority of the time) used for
> ill, does not mean we must disavow that it can ever have purely beneficial results.

Faith in god is very widespread so it would be unrealistic to expect that it had never done some good somewhere sometime, but I can say with some confidence that it is NEVER purely beneficial and is as close to being purely detrimental as anything yet known. 

> you could alter the faith in god to, say, faith in humanity

Then you would passionately believe in something about humanity that the evidence does not support and may even contradict; that doesn't sound like a very good thing to me. Believing in something for no good reason is not a virtue it is a vice.

 John K Clark



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