I am always worried by religious people - usually Christians in my environs - who argue that religion is essential for morality, and that without it, people would be out there looting, raping and killing. Leaving aside that the evidence for the already existing atheists doing these things is scanty, what is very concerning is that these religious folks seem to feel that without the laws of their faith, they would be behaving in this totally self-centred way themselves. Can this be true? When I am near to these people, am I near to some seething mass of barely restrained violence? Not a comfortable thought.

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