A letter written by Stephen Kravcik published today in the Ottawa Citizen (Canada) -- http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/letters/Morality+based+only+religion/3415837/story.html:

Morality is not based only on religion…

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Goncourt is supposed to have once said "If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion". When you think of it, that makes perfect sense. If I were God, I would be pretty annoyed at all these religions and sects preaching in my name and pretending they know who I am and what I want. I think that people who simply admit they don't and can't know anything about me would seem a lot less offensive to me.

One of the news items these days is that a mosque will be built near Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attack in New York. I find it offensive that any religion would want a place of workshop at this location. However, I see no reason to exclude Muslim places of worship any more than others. The right wing of the Republican Party seems to have decided to make this mosque a political issue, but I don’t like the…

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Yesterday I came across “Why I Am Not a Christian” written in 1927 by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell (can be found at http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/russell0.htm). Some of you probably know this text well but for me it was my first exposure to it. What surprised me the most is how relevant his… Continue