Sometimes so-called "bashing" is well-deserved.

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6. So take God out of the equation. Does this logic apply to EVERY beautiful thing?

Does it include the resources those Africans spent on their own religions before Western culture colonized them?

Are secular courts better excuses than religious ones for high culture? Would an atheist Bach have made better music?

For me it has a lot less to do with which principles you value and a lot more to do with whether your morality about it is pre-conventional, conventional, or post-conventional.


MOST IMPORTANTLY - are the two really comparable in the sense that one can spend similar amounts of money in one or the other place with the same results. Religions with the power to really help the "suffering African babies" would have the power to overthrow the global economy and force it to treat Africa differently on a grand scale.

Is anyone here advocating for religions that powerful? Really?

Personally I think the "argument" to be a cheap emotional thrill, of the sort that we insist right-wingers ought to rise above.

I choose art over guilt. Always. It leads people to more effective action.