The God Who Wasn't There2005

Narrator:
Let me propose something. Religion does no harm at all. Discuss.

Richard Carrier:
[laughs] Well, of course, you know, evidence of history and even contemporary events refutes that.

Narrator:
Whatever.

Richard Carrier:
Even if we set aside, you know, the obvious - war, conflict, violence that has always plagued society and has gotten particularly worse under the Judeo-Christian religions - um, even if we set that aside, we have ordinary, everyday things that are going wrong. Uh, the sort of dehumanization and mistreatment of homosexuals, for example, is a prominent example, and it's getting worse in this country, actually. It was getting better for a while, but now there's this backlash, and that's, that's bad. That's bad for humanity; and in a religion that encourages that or even allows that, it's wrong.