Criticism of Religion
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Criticism of religion is criticism of the concepts, validity, and/or practices of religion, including associated political and social implications. Religious criticism has a long history, going back as far as the first century BCE in Rome with Titus Lucretius Carus's De Rerum Natura, and continuing to the present day with the advent of new atheism, represented by such authors as Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. Critics consider religion to be outdated, to be harmful to the individual (e.g. brainwashing of children, faith healing, circumcision), to be harmful to society (e.g. holy wars, terrorism, wasteful distribution of resources), to impede the progress...
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Дата выхода: июль 2011