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Originally Posted by CCIP
Wow, and after that one, I'm REALLY glad I'm an atheist  |
Yeah because atheists never did anything like wipe out whole bunches of people! Wait, who were Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao again?
Just messing with ya some, but it'd be a mistake in my opinion to think that religion is the only thing that makes people go a little nutty and decide to wipe out bucketloads of people. Or that taking religion out of the equation would necessarilly remove those sort of impulses.
People have always been a little nutty, it's part of our charm as a species. Religion, ethnicity, politics, etc. just make it easier to organize and channel impulses that are already hardwired.
Yeah I'm obviously a really optomistic "up with people" sort of guy...
