Religion fails because it separates questions of right and wrong and
good and evil from the actual reality of human and animal suffering. The
Catholic Church is more concerned about preventing contraception than
preventing child rape; it’s more concerned about preventing gay marriage
than genocide. This is a real inversion of priorities that completely
falsifies any discussion of morality in the church. The moment you’ve
linked morality to the well-being of conscious creatures, you see that
the practices of the church don’t maximize human well-being. The church
is as confused in talking about morality as it would be in the physics
of the transubstantiation. They could use the word "physics" over and
over again, the same way they use the words "morality" and "values," but
no physicist would be obligated to take them seriously, and I’m arguing
that no serious conversation about morality can include the priorities
of the church.
--Sam Harris
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