Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "PETER HITCHENS | THE AUTHORITARIAN LEFT NEVER RESTS | #CLIP" video.

  1. Pretty spot-on. While religion brings out some of the best and deters some of the worst in people, it also gives them this "I believe; therefore, I am virtuous, and anyone who disagrees with me is malign" attitude. When you take away religion, such people will latch on to ideas that are indistinguishable from religious dogma, except for the fact that they do not use "God said" in their rhetoric. Take away religion, and political ideology is always there to fill the vacuum. I don't know what the answer is other than to be on your guard against falling into the trap. I'm pretty much agnostic, when it comes to religion. I don't think I've ever encountered one that doesn't require me to make a leap of faith in defiance of the evidence of my senses. But even an atheist must make such a leap of faith in order to even get UP in the morning. Without that larger meaning to life, that makes sense of your place in the universe, fatalism, hedonism and nihilism beckon. Religion's great power - especially the Christian faith - is offering paradise at the end of a universally fatal existence, and along the way installing a system of morals that, when followed, enable cultures/tribes/nations to persist, intact over wide spans of geography and time.
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