John Allen Paulos has 12 irreligious questions for

John Allen Paulos has 12 irreligious questions for the candidates. Among them:

Is it right to suggest, as many have, that atheists and agnostics are somehow less moral when the numbers on crime, divorce, alcoholism and other measures of social dysfunction show that non-believers in the United States are extremely under-represented in each category?

How would you suggest that we reason with someone who claims that his or her decisions are informed, shaped, even dictated by fundamental religious principles, which nevertheless can’t be probed or questioned by those who don’t share them?

(via 3qd)

• 2008 election
• johnallenpaulos
• politics
• religion