The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias

I have an increasing dislike for organized religion of any sort, and, in particular for all of the current versions of the Abrahamic religions. There seems to me to be very little evidence that human societies lead happier or more moral lives as a result of them. Their main function in this world (by definition, we know nothing of the next) seems to be to provide an excuse, if one is needed, for cutting people off from each other, killing and persecution. Historically speaking the Church of England is one of the least harmful – based on 39 articles which...