He makes some interesting points.
However, I take issue with a couple of things that he is trying to say.
I don't at all like how he and other (not all) atheists issue a pandemic dismissal of religious people as not being critical thinkers or scientific. Here in New England as an exampe, there are scores of non-Catholic parents trying to get their children in to Catholic schools because the education is more rigorous and the children earn better life skills. Boston College has some of the best programs in the country for majors such as law and the hard sciences, yet the school began, and is still run, by the Jesuits. My former husband earned his PhD in Physical Chemistry from BC, I hardly think he would have survived freshman year as an undergrad had he said "But...but....but...the Bible says earth is only 4000 years old!"
It is not a person's
label that matters, it is their
character. To say the evils of Pol Pot and the like were because they were from an environment that was "like religion" only tells about half of the story. The other half is the lack of quality education and the lack of analytical skills.
Just my thoughts anyway