You Don’t Need God to be Good February 13, 2009
Posted by Anita in God is Imaginary, Humanism, Rational Thinkers, Religion and Culture.Tags: God, You Can Be Good Without God
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The Humanist Association of Canada will be launching a transit ad campaign similar to the Atheist Bus Campaign, but with a message more to the point:
YOU CAN BE GOOD WITHOUT GOD
Here are some excerpts from their press release dated January 30, 2009:
“We want people to know that belief in a god is not necessary to live a full, moral and happy life. Humanists embody this concept every day”, says Humanist Canada president and spokesperson Pat O’Brien.
For too long, religion has assumed the authority of moral teacher and the Humanists are here to say that the teachings of progressive thinkers, such as philosophers Epicurus, Baruch de Spinoza, Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky, physicists such as Albert Einstein and Steven Weinberg, and other freethinking individuals are just as good, or even better, than many of the teachings of religion.
The “Good Without God” transit campaign was created to reach out to non-believers everywhere that there is an organization that will protect their rights, values, and the separation of religion and state.
The press release also notes:
“According to several global studies, the safest and most humane societies are the ones where religion and state are kept separate.
For example, the Journal of Religion and Society, a U.S academic journal, reported in 2005 that ‘higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.’”
For more information go to: www.humanistcanada.com.
It is beyond question. Indeed, all too often,beliefs are counter-productive to being good.