Some more wisdom from a fundamentalist atheist:
Now I have a marvelous response to Gutting’s piece, but the margins of this post are too narrow to contain them. It does involve the fact that though religion can motivate good behaviors (and we should not deny that), it also motivates bad ones. Secular humanism, on the other hand, can promote the good but not the bad.
The fundie atheists have found Pure Good. They found it by looking in the mirror. What a joke.
Secular humanism, on the other hand, can promote the good but not the bad = cognitive dissonance
Now that’s a convenient argument. Why didn’t we think of that? Simply declare bad behavior to be a physical and logical impossibility in one’s system. Clever!