Re: Is Religion a Force for Good or Evil.

Can you really measure the morality of an organization by using the number of people killed by it?
In some cases there are organizations that are so clever that they understand that threat is more efficient than real murders. Especially if the principal aim of these organization is to exploit society and people, rather than really to kill and destroy them.
But this do not excuse the psychological violence which is under the way they behave and the consequent immorality.
Can you really think that the principle aim of communism was to spread atheism?
Atheism is simply a lack of faith in supernatural, all powerful gods.
A faith in an ideology can motivate someone to kill, for example: believing that entrepreneurs and everyone who possesses a production factory is a dangerous master who enslaves men in order to get richer. But is this a good example of critical thinking? Can you provide us with convincing evidence in order to support this concept?
No!
Therefore it should be treated like a blind faith, that is: an ideology.
Many skeptic people become atheist for this particular reason: there is no good evidence to affirm that a personal god really exists.
Alas not every atheist is a skeptic, though. And not every skeptic is an atheist either.

This video is a replay to a little excerpt from the debate:
Is Religion a Force for Good or Evil in the World?
with Michael Shermer and Dinesh D'Souza.

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[anubis2814]

Ridiculously good argument!