The connections among morality, prudence, and religion are complicated and beyond my concerns here. I would like to counter, however, the claim regul… - John Allen Paulos

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The connections among morality, prudence, and religion are complicated and beyond my concerns here. I would like to counter, however, the claim regularly made by religious people that atheists and agnostics are somehow less moral or law-abiding than they. There is absolutely no evidence for this, and I suspect whatever average distance there is along the nebulous dimension of morality has the opposite algebraic sign.