{"id":27234,"date":"2021-02-19T08:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T12:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=27234"},"modified":"2021-02-20T23:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T03:41:22","slug":"is-religion-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/is-religion-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Religion Dangerous? How Belief Warps Morals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is religion dangerous? How does religion inevitably lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/religious-violence\/\">religious violence<\/a> and hatred?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Religious hatred and religious violence have long been a part of human history. So Richard Dawkins poses the question in <em>The God Delusion<\/em>: is religion dangerous? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to answer the question &#8220;is religion dangerous?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is Religion Dangerous?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked about how most of modern society has moved away from the moral values extolled in holy texts like the Bible and the Quran. Whether they acknowledge it or not, most people have accepted modern, secular liberal values. But is religion dangerous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But <strong>there are still many people all around the world who explicitly <\/strong><strong><em>do <\/em><\/strong><strong>ground their morals in religion<\/strong>\u2014and often a narrow, literalist interpretation of their religion at that\u2014with brutal consequences. In this chapter, we\u2019ll explore how faith poisons rational minds and endangers society, looking at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How faith (belief without evidence) forecloses the possibility of critical thinking and can be used to justify even the most horrific acts<\/li><li>The atrocities perpetrated in the name of faith<\/li><li>Why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/raising-children\/\">raising children<\/a> to accept faith and assigning them a religious label constitutes a form of abuse<\/li><li>Why society should stop granting automatic respect or deference to religion<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Evidence vs. Belief<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The essence of faith is belief without evidence<\/strong>. Even if incontrovertible evidence that the Bible was a fraud or that God did not exist was presented to them, a person of faith would be unmoved. This blind faith is tragic, as it forestalls any possibility of truly engaging with the world and exercising your powers of critical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even though the overwhelming majority of people of faith are nonviolent and would never think of forcefully imposing their beliefs on others, their faith <em>itself <\/em>is a source of great malevolence. Once you\u2019ve accepted the idea that you don\u2019t need proof to back up your beliefs and that faith can act as your guide, you can justify nearly <em>anything <\/em>in the name of that faith. By encouraging faith, <em>all <\/em>forms of religion provide fertile breeding grounds for dangerous extremism. Which begs the question: is religion dangerous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What About Violence Perpetrated by Atheists?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The question &#8220;is religion dangerous&#8221; forces us to ask about violence in the name of atheism. Religious people might counter with the argument that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were atheists and they committed the greatest humanitarian crimes in history. While Stalin most likely was an atheist, Hitler almost certainly wasn\u2019t. Hitler openly declared himself to be a Catholic in multiple speeches, invoked the supposed killing of Christ by the Jews as a rationale for his murderous antisemitism. He also expressed a belief in divine Providence throughout his life. Indeed, Hitler\u2019s more modern, racialized antisemitism drew upon a long history in Christian Europe of reviling the Jews for being \u201cChrist-killers.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But even if both men could be proven decisively to have been atheists, it wouldn\u2019t matter. Their crimes were not motivated by <em>atheism<\/em>. Stalin\u2019s murderous career was driven by his interpretation of Marxist-Leninist ideology; Hitler\u2019s by racist eugenics, combined with extreme nationalism and militarism. If anything, both dictators built quasi-religious cults of personality that elevated each of them to the status of near-gods in their respective countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lesson is clear\u2014<strong>while individual atheists may indeed commit horrific crimes, it is not their atheism itself that compels them. What <em>is <\/em>needed for otherwise normal people to commit evil is religion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So is religion dangerous? According to Dawkins, there is strong evidence to suggest it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is religion dangerous? How does religion inevitably lead to religious violence and hatred? Religious hatred and religious violence have long been a part of human history. So Richard Dawkins poses the question in The God Delusion: is religion dangerous? 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