ecargo13 Jan 2006

Who says that? No atheist I know. I can't imagine anyone out of their teens claiming anything so broad and patently ridiculous. Greed underlies most "religious" conflicts--it's just the poor suckers fighting for the ideal, it always seems. If you got rid of man, there'd be no war; otherwise? Not likely.

I didn't say anything here; I just noted what Einstein said. Sure it has merit. And there are plenty of examples of it in practice--do you think altruism is linked exclusively to religion? That's nonsense. So-called "religious" people (many of whom seem to think that declaring that they "believe in" God gives them some sort of automatic moral superiority) are no more likely to be moral, kind, good, giving, just, etc., than nonreligious people.