Is religion good for us?

These are instances in which a substitute for religion is constructed. The evil comes from the same mechanism: unthinking adherence to a creed and blind following of leaders. Your bigotry is showing. Not all scientists are atheists. Indeed, I have heard that in communities in the US where nuclear weapons were manufactured, the local clergy gave sermons promoting the making of those weapons. You should also bear in mind that it is GW Bush and his born-again buddies who have been running around starting wars.

This is nonsense. The bible promotes all sorts of horrible evils: genocide, slavery, rape, family abandonment etc.In any case, people do not get morality from the bible, they rummage around in it to justify whatever it is they want to do to start with. It has been used to justify apartheid, slavery, war, and a vast array of hatreds and bigotries.The morals needed to allow people to live together are obvious to anyone with a brain. Of course this basis is mentioned by religions. Most of the rest is a con job designed to subject people to the will of priests, pastors, vicar, rabbis, imams - the whole sorry rabble.The end effect of relion is people who are actually incapable of real moral reasoning, but rather are terrified followers of arbitrary rules.Edited by Woodsy, : spelling fix