Thursday, February 12, 2015

The Wages of Theophobia

Recent assertions in the Los Angeles Times that secular family values result in better-adjusted children than believers rest on three fallacies.

The story also contains a marvelously pungent lede:

"The dominant feature of the Christian religion is belief in Jesus Christ. The dominant feature of Buddhism is the promise of nirvana. The dominant feature of atheism, as best I can tell, is crippling insecurity."