Theology Is Now Little More Than A

Science, In The Broadest Sense, Includes All Reasonable Claims To Knowledge About Ourselves And The World.

Missionaries In The Developing World Waste A Lot Of Time And Money (not To Mention The Goodwill Of Non-christians) Proselytizing To The Needy. . . . While Missionaries Do Many Noble Things At Great Risk To Themselves, Their Dogmatism Still Spreads Ignorance And Death. By Contrast, Volunteers For Secular Organizations . . . Do Not Waste . . . Time Telling People About The Virgin Birth Of Jesus. Nor Do They Tell People In Sub-saharan Africa - Where Nearly Four Million People Die From Aids Every Year - That Condom Use Is Sinful.

The Conflict Between Religion And Science Is Inherent And (very Nearly) Zero-sum. The Success Of Science Often Comes At The Expense Of Religious Dogma; The Maintenance Of Religious Dogma Always Comes At The Expense Of Science.

This Is The True Horror Of Religion. It Allows Perfectly Decent And Sane People To Believe By The Billions, What Only Lunatics Could Believe On Their Own.

The Science Of Morality Is About Maximizing Psychological And Social Health. It's Really No More Inflammatory Than That.