Some of my family have been having a heated Facebook argument (as you do) sparked by recent troubles in the support base for Catherine Hamlin's Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia. Sadly, there appears to be a dispute about the religious affiliations of supporters which is interfering with funding for this important work. This charity is dear to the hearts of a number of family members and they are shocked. I don't really understand the dispute and the ABC report of it is not all that enlightening. Still, my favourite and much-loved atheist relative's instant emotional reaction was to blame the Christian faith for the problem. Religion poisons everything, as Christopher Hitchens would have said. Of course Hamlin herself is also a Christian, but what are such details before the power of confirmation bias ? Anyway I know I shouldn't let my caustic wit get the better of me, but here goes. Our current crop of New Atheists like to view religion as a product of evolution
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson