Hmmmmm.....

An Op-Ed from Slavoj Zizek in the New York Times Sunday discusses the value of atheism in a world full of increasingly violent religious zealots. I'm a very spiritual person, but this is a very interesting article that kind of pinpoints the growing sickening feeling that I have inside about people who shroud themselves in religious "morality". He speaks about the warning of Dostoyevsky that without God, we have a society of anything goes. He says:

This argument couldn't have been more wrong: the lesson of today's terrorism is that if God exists, then everything, including blowing up thousands of innocent bystanders, is permitted — at least to those who claim to act directly on behalf of God, since, clearly, a direct link to God justifies the violation of any merely human constraints and considerations.

I would urge you to read the full article. This is just one of the many points that the author made that made me go: hmmmm.