Friday, January 4, 2008

Does Religion Make One a Better Ruler?
Written by Alonzo Fyfe in Atheist Ethicist on December 28th.
I added it to my “starred items” in Google Reader at 14:54 on January 4th.
I missed an opportunity to take part in a BBC broadcast yesterday regarding the question, “. . . whether religion helps make better politicians.” My answer to that question would have been generally no, it does not. Put quite simply, religions are collections of false beliefs, and false beliefs generally provide a poor foundation for policy…