Comment Re:Sudden Peace? (Score 1) 1067
Please. Religions treat no one with dignity. And even if the religions do, their followers don't.
There is no reason that followers of any religion need to be afforded that courtesy.
To quote Steven Weinberg, "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
Please. Militant atheists are just as self-righteous and obnoxious as militant theists, but they get that added kick of hypocrisy (we want freedom of belief, but not your beliefs!).
If there was no religion, "good" people would continue to do "evil" things for a variety of reasons... land, food, love, regionalism, relative notions of how society should function, etc. We live in a world of scarcity, and in the absence of a universal agreement to divide scarce resources with maximum efficiency, "good" people will continue to commit "evil" acts against others, and some of these "evil" acts will be seen as "good" by a number of similarly situated "good" persons.