Hi Darwin,

Isaac Newton was a very intelligent man, and a very religious man. He spent

more time and effort on religious studies

than he did on physics.....yet he was open to discovery, inventing his own

Calculus to describe and predict the "laws of

motion".

Desire to learn, peace with others...are qualities of the heart, deeper

than religion. Religion, money, government, corporate ladders, and many

other channels are used by folks with good and bad motives. That does not

mean that

any of the above are evil. Canpaigning to get rid of money because some

people are greedy of have embesseled, extorted, sold dope, or used

predatory lending, developed a monopoly would not realy get at the problem

root.

Just because people have used religion to get rich, gain power, oppress the

poor etc., does not mean it is bad in and of

its self, any more than goverenment, which has been used to get rich, gain

power, oppress the poor etc.  Any thing can

be abused.

Becoming an athiest messiah will just create an anti-religion with another

leader with followers with zealots and sheep.

P.S. You don't have to be an atheist to believe we should take care of this

planet.