The opening of my final column in the Theist vs. Atheist debate series at EveryJoe:
“To evaluate religion’s track record we need to specify our evaluative benchmarks and identify whether we are evaluating religion generically or a particular religion.
“A religion is a set of beliefs and practices, and my primary benchmark is this: Does it foster or hinder healthy and happy living in the natural world?
“All of the many thousands of religions are false, but they are not all false in the same way or to the same degree — so the destructive effects of their falsity come in degrees …” [Read more here.]
Here are the links to other columns in the series.