I think the statement at the top is a little off. It was closer to:

"People who do good things are good people, and people who do bad things are bad people.
Religion allows people who do bad things to still be good people, as the bad things are done in the name of religion."

Now define good and bad. We need some moral framework independant of religion to do so.



I come to this as an atheist. I went through a rough patch a while back, and a freind brough me into a local christian group, and she honestly belived it would help. I could not find any comfort in being asked to belive that one book and it's central astonishing claims are true, when at the same time it makes many other claims shown to be false, and has sections very similar to the myths and legends of other peoples, but one is the word of God and the other not.


Faith is belief without proof, but to require belief in the face of ever growing contary evidence would make the God in question either vidictave or insane.