The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.

If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?