Radical Reason

Russell Madden's latest article Radical Reason is now online at The Laissez Faire Electronic Times:

Depending on the poll or study one reads, anywhere from eighty to ninety-five percent of Americans profess a belief on some level in a god. But what is interesting in the quote above by Paul Kurtz is not whether atheism is or is not a valid belief. After all, as the article mentions, some of the worst individuals in history — Stalin, Mao — were self-proclaimed atheists.

(Of course, many more tyrants and thugs were devoutly religious. Pick your favorite pope or king or other religious leader who burned or beheaded heathens and infidels or chose to wage war against them and slaughtered countless thousands in order to "save" their immortal souls.)

You can read more from Madden at his personal website.