Religion Does No Harm

Religion Does No Harm, Bill Maher reflects - YouTube:

'via Blog this'

on Mar 30, 2010

Why criticize religion? It brings people comfort and doesn't hurt anyone! Right? Taken from Maher's "But I'm Not Wrong" (2010).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/12/pope-joh-paul-facebook-page_n_834898.html The Vatican's communications and public relations woes are well known: muddled papal messages, flat-footed responses to crises like the sex abuse scandal and a certain lack of Internet savvy that allowed, to cite one egregious case, for the pope to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop. (Benedict now says he never would have rehabilitated the bishop had he known his views about Jews, which were widely available with a Google search.)

Vatican's YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/vatican

Vatican Facebook page for pope's U.K. visithttp://www.facebook.com/papalvisit

Website for beatification cause of Pope John Paul II http://www.karol-wojtyla.org

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-thill/true-believers-will-kill-_b_18155.html
I'm talking about religion, and the imaginary world it foists upon our lonely planet as we jockey for power. It is the true root of all of our present evils, and it must be eradicated. One way or another.

We could do it the easy way, which is to sit down and have a long, good talk about why we still continue to fight over it, as the Vatican has recently suggested. But the fact that the same Vatican has recently called on us to revise our appraisal of the Crusades isn't encouraging on that count. Plus, the line between what is Christian and what is Muslim (to say nothing of what is Shi'ite and what is Sunni) is so historically slender that we should all be sent to Hell for arguing about it.