Among Americans who identify as atheist, 81% are white, while only 3% are Black. We discuss the tremendous social challenges that Black skeptics face in extricating themselves from the Church.
Individualism without the social contract is not what Enlightenment thinkers had in mind. They would find that notion abhorrent. Freedom comes with responsibility.
Homo sapiens went through a process of self-domestication by killing the most violent troublemakers in our species. Over thousands of generations, this reduced reactive aggression.