I'm one of those thinkers that your article talked about.  I am an atheist, an evolutionist, and I question everything.  There should be alternatives to creationism, there should be a wider hole in that 'sin' based culture and law system.

   But I have to say that you were a little too rough on the poor Beleivers.  I know a lot of them myself and they're generally good people. 

Their morals are very strong, but sadly they only extend to their own brood.

    I have no morals in the human sense, anymore, having long since abandoned them.  Life is, the way I see it, just here and there isn't any mystical thing too it.  I feel pleasure and pain because of heredity and environment, so I'm just here for the fun.

    Being a pack animal for the last several million years, we all experience empathy and pity for our kind, but only because of the evolutionary benefit it offered us.  And religion is rather firmly based on these early drafts of morals.  Some of it is good stuff, in the human perspective.

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