Is religion good for us?

Francis Galton.---If we apply the same method to deciding how many gods there are, then apparently the polytheists are right. There's about a billion Hindus out there, and their pantheon is large.

Whereas curiously enough claiming all the science being done by the Indians and the Chinese and the Japanese and so on for the West is not cultural imperialism. If some guy called வெங்கட்ராமன் ராமகிருஷ்ணன் describes the molecular structure of the ribosome, that's not "eastern wisdom", that's another triumph for us white folks, hurrah! Anyone who disagrees is probably some kind of racist.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Being the old-fashioned type, I like to get down on one knee, produce a ring, and say "will you gay-marry me?" That usually gets rid of them. Do you see what I did there?

If only you'd also accused us of poor spelling, underuse of capital letters, and having the username archaeologist, that would have been perfect. On the other hand, with no religion this would not be a problem, since religion is what the gun stands for in the analogy. ... says the guy who just completely missed the point.

Let me remind you that you are addressing an audience largely composed of people who are atheists, and who therefore know for certain that you are bearing false witness.

What you wrote was, and I quote: This is false, and know to your audience to be false. The falsehood you uttered is not even remotely implied by the Pauline doctrine of grace.Paul says that morals and the need to be good are insufficient for salvation. You say that they are absent in the absence of religion. And that is not Scriptural, it's just something you've made up. And it is false.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

And I know for a fact that this is false, since I have morality without religion.This is not a point on which you can even hope to deceive me. An example does not prove a general statement.If someone were foolish enough to claim that religion was utterly incompatible with morality, then referring to one event such as the Spanish Inquisition, or to two events such as the Spanish Inquisition and 9/11, or to three events such as the Spanish Inquisition and 9/11 and the sack of Jerusalem ... would not prove the point.But one counterexample destroys a general proposition.

No I do not.When you tell me falsehoods about my own opinions, you are not going to deceive me. History fail. You are, once more, telling me untruths about my own opinions. And my actions. And I notice that I have committed genocide a lot less often than your imaginary godlet.