From Atlasphere member Jason Hoskin:
Religion vs. Morality
by Dr. Andrew Bernstein
Conventionally, most people believe that morality can only be based in religious faith that in a world without God no principles of right and wrong could exist. Related to this, philosophers have long held that no objective, fact-based, rational code of values is possible.
Regarding both points, this talk shows that the exact opposite is true. The purpose of morality is to guide human life on earth and religion is utterly incapable of it. Flourishing life requires a code of secularism, rationality, egoism and freedom. Religious faith clashes with every principle of a proper moral code, and, as such, has led, and can only lead to, hell on earth.
Sponsored by The USC Objectivist Club
Wednesday, March 2 at 8PM
SGM-123 (Seely G. Mudd)
University of Southern California
3667 Mc Clintock
Los Angeles CA 90089