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I know plenty of atheists who have no hesitation telling others how to live their lives and are convinced that all their ideas are best & that society should be run their way. 'Religion' can be can be found in all sorts of places and it's not always a church. There are good people in the world and evil people in the world, and the evil ones will use whatever institutions at their disposal to gain power and benefit themselves. Knocking down churches and trying to stamp out organized religion will never change this fundamental aspect of human behavior.
This is something most people don't really understand because most people aren't sociopaths. World leaders, almost always sociopaths with no real true belief system other than in themselves. Always self serving and looking out for their own best interests first and also enjoy reveling in others misery because sociopaths are like the opposite of humans.
Your point about religion is bang on too. Almost everyone I know has a religion of some form. Doesn't mean they believe in God though. Unfortunately many of them are led around by their religions in their decision making and use all kinds of emotional reasoning about the topic. A good example is Global Warming. I am on the fence about the subject as I have gone over much evidence and the topic is so complicated that I don't think it's clear one way or the other and I certainly don't think the alarmism is warranted at all. But I know people who treat it like a religion with various global warming authorities as their God, and they frequently do not go over evidence objectively.
I'm not starting an argument about global warming by the way, I am simply unconvinced of it's "rock solid" basis in science. It's more a political movement that seems to be about establishing further control as far as I can tell based on science that is far too early in study to make any kind of firm conclusions.
....i love the way you think brotha!!!....:smokebuds: