Description

Alain de Botton discusses why we need not fear moral collapse if and when religion disappears.

Discussion Questions

• Why do you think people associate religion with morality?
• Do you think that you can have values without religion?
• What are the different views of freedom that Botton argues religious and secular people have?
• How might the social structures of religion help us ‘be our best’?
• Can and should we create similar structures in the Humanist movement?

Keywords: religion, humanism, atheism, values, ethics, morality, society