Religion is a product of early superstition

Inventing religion

When mankind first created religion, they incorporated a lot of the common sense morality that all ready made sense - things like "don't kill other people" and "don't steal." You don't need to be religious to be moral and, in fact, atheists sometimes seem more moral that the religious.

Where does religion come from?

Speaking of religion....

It's not rocket science

Hitchens speaks

Are you even a little bit convinced yet?

Speaking of religion and morality...

I'd like to see the evidence that supports Christopher Hitchens in the following statement, but even superficially, given my limited knowledge of the history of the world and modern America, it feels about right.

Religion is nuts...

Is Christianity Declining in Influence in America

Hitchens Speaks About Warren

The following quotes are grabbed from Adult Christianity...

Speaking of Obama's choice of Rick Warren for the invocation at the inaugural...

...the man he has chosen to deliver his inaugural invocation is a relentless clerical businessman who raises money on the proposition that certain Americans - non-Christians, the wrong kind of Christians, homosexuals, nonbelievers - are of less worth and littler virtue than his own lovely flock of redeemed and salvaged and paid-up donors.

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But if we must have an officiating priest, let it be some dignified old hypocrite with no factional allegiance and not a tree-shaking huckster and publicity seeker who believes that millions of his fellow citizens are hellbound because they do not meet his own low and vulgar standards.