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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

God, Religious, Atheist

"Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know dont care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science-that it has made it possible for people not to be religious.

Steven Weinberg

Religious, Atheist, Thinking

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

Steven Weinberg

Atheist, Atheism, Care

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

Religious, Atheist, Thinking

"Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief" (BBC Four), 2005.