Ich mag diese Kosten-Nutzen-Rechnungen. Besonders wenn’s um politische Fragen geht. Darum soll’s hier nicht gehen.

Sondern ich will ein paar Sätze an jene Leute richten, die stets einwenden, die Religionen brächten doch so viel Gutes, wenn ich ebenjene kritisiere und ihre Abschaffung fordere:

…it’s hard to believe that you really need a lot of supernatural baggage to derive those social benefits. Compassion and kindness do not die when people stop believing in God. On the other hand, there are certain sorts of abuse that are vastly more likely to occur in the presence of religious belief than in its absence. Only someone driven mad by religion would beat his daughter for losing her virginity before her wedding, for example.¹

1. EvolutionBlog - The Illusion of Virginity [↩]