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Article: 20th-century secularization: War and the sexual revolution
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2009
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With no sense of irony, Christopher Hitchens includes a chapter
in his atheist screed, "God is Not Great, How Religion Poisons
Everything," titled "Religion Kills." He cobbles together five or
six examples of wars and killings supposedly inspired by religious
zealots. He begins the chapter with a quote from his two-millennia-
old fellow militant atheist, Lucretius, "To such heights of evil are
men drawn by religion."
Now, there is no question that evil men under the guise of
religion have committed atrocities. I neither justify nor excuse
such behavior. However, all the evil acts committed in the name of
religion in human history do not compare with the depredations of
power-hungry men from ...