Beating Babies In The Name Of Jesus

Austin Cline has posted on how Conservative Christians have transformed beating children into a godly activity.

As Steven Weinberg has said:

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes *religion."

Or, as Christopher Hitchens has said:

"Try to think of a good act performed by a person in the name of God or religion that would not have been performed by a non-believer.

"Now, try to think of an evil act carried out by a person (or group) solely in the *name of God or religion that would not have been carried out by a non-believer."

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*This blogger would expand the terms "religion" or "god" to include any authoritarian, quasi-religious government.