On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 22:05:52 -0800, Brian Burger
wrote:

If what you're saying is true, then religion is obviously a harmful tool in
the hands of the greedy. Let's disarm them.

That's more or less what Richard Dawkins said just after Sept 11/01:

http://www.ffrf.org/tm.php?tm=dawkins.html

It's nonsense, that is, fallacy in the form of the Genuine but
Insignificant Cause. If it were true, then people espousing atheist
belief systems would consistently behave much better than they've
proven to have behaved.

In harping on "religion", he misses that point, and so I don't care
what his letters and credentials are, he's demagoguing.

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card