“As far as any successful society of atheists or mostly areligious people, such a society (if it even exists) is something fairly new under the sun.”

– I’m from such a society. I can say that it is definitely a relief not to have wasted any time on stupid church visits in my childhood. And not to have been brainwashed by idiotic beliefs. At the same time, we ended up being a society where moral norms are simply absent, even among good, intellectual wonderful people. I;m still not sure whether that has anything to do with religion or lack thereof, though. Maybe I should write a post about it.