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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

Christopher Hitchens

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Sounds a lot like Steven Weinberg

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

[–] nybble41 1 points 11 months ago

At times blind belief in a leader or a cause can function in much the same way as religion, resulting in secular atrocities. Unfortunately not every non-religious worldview is grounded in reason and empathy.