Reply #26: If that's the best you have, you shouldn't have bothered

[skepticscott]

After 80+ years, you're still dishing out the same tired, discredited arguments? And you start off by rather foolishly conflating religion and the actions of believers with theology.

To simply say, as you essentially have, "If you'll all please just not consider all of the evil that has been motivated by religion, then religion has been overwhelmingly a force for good" Well, duh...I'm sure you'd like everyone to think that way, but an honest assessment of the role of religion in history has to consider both good and evil, as well as whether the good could not have been managed but for religion. Are you seriously leading off with such an intellectually dishonest position?