normblog- reviews Richard Dawkins : "I have to say, despite my periodic criticism of his one-sided anti-religious tirades, most of what he said about the importance of reason, evidence, the need to test ideas and so forth, didn't come amiss. The value of these things was brought out by the character of most of those he was interviewing, who were their living negation."

I don't think most anti-religious are willing to test their theory of "better living" w/o religion. One measure would be, for instance, do convicted criminals more often go to church, less often, or about the same? If more often, that is evidence for a "better life" with more atheism; if less often, opposite evidence.

I understand that Christians suffer about the same divorce rate as public average. This is strong evidence that current religion is not, in average practice, helping men and women stay happily married. This is the biggest failing of the Christian Church today.