AC Grayling doesn’t half talk tripe sometimes. Atheists can be just as abusive of power and become advocates for war (1, 2, 3) for entirely ’secular’ reasons, just as believers can for ‘religious’ reasons.
In fact, the atheists I noted above were just as assured of their beliefs about the Iraq invasion as Tony Blair was when he appealed to his unwavering conviction that he was ‘doing the right thing’ and his apparently firm belief in God.
(That being said I did agree with some of his other points, e.g. disestablishment of the Church, positioning of religious groups into civil society, etc).
