Darwin: 10 Theists: 0
I was listening to an interview on NPR where the person was asked what she thought of Andrea Yates, the women who drowned her 5 children, and she responded with "I believe she was a good christian". I thought about this for a while and it occured to me that I've never heard anyone say "He was a good Jew" or "She was a good Buddhist" or "She was a moral atheist".
Similarly I haven't ever heard of an "Atheist Militia" or "Buddhist Militia" so I'm wondering what's so good in being a 'good christian'. How many wars have been fought over or due to religion, even in these modern times? Religion and salvation allegedly drove Yates to kill her children in a desperate attempt to save them from the fires of hell. If this is a good christian then I'd sure hate to see a bad one.
permalink Ω 27 March 2002, Helsinki






