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Great Moral Case Studies, but Scientific Morality--Not So Much
I had a bit of a hard time reading parts of "The Moral Arc."

I chose it right away when it showed up as an Amazon Vine selection. As an unabashed secular humanist, I was interested to learn about author Michael Shermer's thesis that the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral.

Well, I'd like to believe that. You'd never find a more ardent proponent of the scientific method than me. My skepticism runs broad and deep. My watchwords are, "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear." I'd be a good Fair Witness (you'll know what I mean if you're familiar with the late Robert A. Heinlein's work). I think all religions, rather than being forces for moral good as their practitioners would like us to believe, have the opposite effect, and are primarily responsible, now and throughout history, for most of the misery and suffering that have plagued the human race since time immemorial.

So, having said that, I...

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