Are atheists so focused upon overturning religion that they risk

[magpieix]

Are we focussed in overturning religion?

Why do I never get these memos?


There is not a single benefit that religion provides that would disappear if religion was to disappear. Not one.

 

[NoChanceWithoutJesus]

They don't care about the babby...as long as the bath water's gone.

 

[Janian]

Please list the benefits

 

[TheDarkKnight]

Hygiene is a good thing.

I mean ... I don't know of any benefits of religion, sorry.

 

[chippyreturns]

A true atheist will never throw out a babby with the bath water.

Why throw away what can be eaten?

(There are starving atheists in africa, can't let a good babby go to waste you know...)

 

[SuperAtheist]

Actually, that's easy to avoid with some sort of coarse filter.

 

[micheller]

What benefits? As Robert Ingersoll said, (paraphrasing): Religious people who are good credit their religion with their goodness, but, really, those people would be good anyway.

We will still have love, friendship, altruism, purpose, drive, joy, etc., even without religion. Contrary to popular misconception, atheism is not all joyless hedonism.

~Atheist, ex-fundie-Xian, former New Ager

 

[RedQueen]

We'd never throw out the babby! Them's good eatin'.

 

[RedQueen]

We'd never throw out the babby! Them's good eatin'.

 

[Plague]

What benefits?

 

[MreSamsa]

There are other ways to provide every benefit which is offered by religion.

 

[AllieQ]

Name any benefits of religion that cannot be achieved without it. Religion did not create good and bad - man was defining those long before the first holy book was ever written, before the first law was put in the books.

 

[HockusPokess]

No will keep the babby of morality and through away the bath water of religion that drowns it.