The morals of the unbelieving

Today is a public holiday in Spain as, according to Catholic belief, the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception is celebrated on December 8. This has prompted several Spanish papers to reflect on religion in today's edition. The daily Diario Sur reports that the British Humanist Association has launched a fund-raising campaign to finance an atheist advertising campaign on buses: "I like what he [the symbolic figure behind the campaign, Oxford professor Richard Dawkins] is saying because he defends the morals of the non-religious. Religions have always tried to combat atheism with the argument that without God everything is permitted. The message was that non-believers had no morals. But the truth is that faith in God does not make a person a better person. We can see this. They are neither morally superior nor more compassionate. Perhaps they're somewhat more intolerant. There's certainly plenty of examples of that."

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