It's not that I don't agree with Maher's views concerning religion. Religion has caused what seems like more problems than solutions throughout history. I would not refute this sort of thinking, because I think it is entirely correct.
I wholeheartedly believe that we should vanquish every aspect of superstition--flushing the people's opiate down the drain. My worry though is whether this will be a slippery slope. If God is no longer real, what's next? Justice? This may seem far-fetched.
However, where is justice supposed to be? Is it objective? Is it wired into the fabric of the universe? Perhaps justice is something we all think is real and there is no such thing. If we are going to rid ourselves of things unseen and unreasoned, justice seems an ample place to go. Why should there be such a thing as fairness? Or even goodness? Perhaps it's all in our heads? Modern psychology seems to be paving the way towards a conclusion like that one.
If it's our fancy to dismantle things unseen, then I fear morality is next on the list. If we can stab religion because of textual inconsistencies, what happens when the day comes when we can uncover mental inconsistencies through mental imagining, etc?
This is not to say I'm for religion. Nor am I for morality. But what an interesting society will develop without either of these notions.
Maybe a small dose of Kool-aid is needed afterall.
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