Humanist chaplain John Figdor: “Religion introduces moral problems that wouldn’t exist otherwise”

"...My view is religion comes in and introduces a bunch of moral problems that wouldn’t exist otherwise. There is a wonderful emergent religious left that’s coming out, that’s having really authentic and serious conversations about religion. But, unfortunately, they aren’t the people having the conversation, and making it so that we can’t really have a discussion about stem-cell research or abortion access or evolution..."

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/07/humanist_chaplain_john_figdor_religion_introduces_moral_problems_that_wouldnt_exist_otherwise/