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"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” [Steven Weinberg]
Charles Dodgson the author of Alice in Wonderland wrote nonsense stories that were clever and funny but Weinberg's nonsense is neither funny or clever it is simply insulting and stupid.
He makes the premise is that evil people do evil and good people do good. Then he contradicts himself and says good people do evil. Both statements cannot be true.
More to the point he is wrong anyway:
Evil people may do evil things, good people will always do good things, but for good people to do evil things it takes [greed, power, oil, governments, etc.]
Besides which if a good person does evil, he is NOT good. He is evil.
Weinberg even admits that religion aside "you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things"
Atheists love to quote his nonsense.
That leaves the sentence "Religion is an insult to human dignity." when in reality it is Christianity that lifts the alcoholic out of the gutter, puts cloths on his back and restores his pride.
The whole quote is an insult to humanity and makes Weinberg look like an ass.
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