katysails wrote:
Will you get off the whole religion thing here??? These are PEOPLE...it
doesn't matter if they worship salamanders....

Umm, does that mean they can't eat salamanders?


...trolling
religion in the wake of a disaster like this just shows the sheer bottom
that you feed on...

Yep. Unfortunately, religion is not a force for good in most people's
lives, though. It's a way of feeling smugly superior to all others
("you're going to Hell and I'm not, nyah nyah"), a way of justifying
their prejudices, and a rationalization for cruelty & robbery.

Whatever slight positive effect on morality religion might have is due
to fear of punishment, which IMHO is not really anything to brag about.

If you think I'm being overly cynical, notice how the same crowd is
trying to "prove" that the U.S. is donating more than others as though
it were a contest, as though they share in the grace of giving even if
they've not donated one penny themselves.

DSK