After careful thought; I do not think atheism will largely destroy greed.  And I'm going to cool it on religion, a little.  I got riled up the past few days about it.  Do I think religion is good?  No.  Can it have some positive effects?  Probably.  That's as far as I'm going on it, though.

Utah, definitely.  How long did it take the Mormons to recognize blacks as "not-the-Devil" again? 

Probably the best thing Philthy has ever done.  People need to be less afraid of the opposite gender's dirty bits.  Creepers are gonna have a field day, though...

So it would be a state that's MODERATELY conservative?  Indiana.

One of our greatest FF's and a fellow 2012 Election Board Obama Warrior 

Lou - ee - see - ana

OMG though.  You have got to feel for Toronto.  I would throw up. 

Your survivors

Bow to the King, Crapitals

EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMIS
Rangers in 5
Senators in 7

WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMIS
Hawks in 6
Kings in 6

I'll say AynRandLand for another reason.  After religion is destroyed, greed by and large will be destroyed.  Most people are naturally benevolent, they need religion/superstition/junk science to feel they have a superior standing than others and therefore justify their greed.  Societies in which religion is powerful breed this type of thought.

...what?

It's absurd to think my belief system will save humanity?  You do the exact same!

no matter. 

[Religion helps equalize people]

Religion helps equalize people, and helps people become more charitable... the person a few posts above has it completely backwards.

LOL!  I won't entertain anything that has the words "religion" and "help" in the same sentence... much less "religion" and "equalize".  Yea... when I think equality I think religion. 

[religious Americans actually give more money to secular causes than do secular Americans]

After religion is destroyed, greed by and large will be destroyed.  Most people are naturally benevolent, they need religion/superstition/junk science to feel they have a superior standing than others and therefore justify their greed.

This is backwards, of course. People are naturally self-centred and need society to teach them otherwise.

Plenty aren't.  

To illustrate: This picture is no coincidence, whether or not the faithful would like to believe otherwise.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/homeless-man-tests-kindness-religions-atheists-money_n_3189871.html
[snip img]

For an atheist, you sure don't seem to put much stock in scientifically conducted research.

What scientifically conducted research?

The most religious Americans actually give more money to secular causes than do secular Americans.

We find the same pattern when we examine how much people give. On average, those in the most religious fifth donate $3,000 to charity annually. Those in the most secular fifth give approximately $1,000. The story is the same when we consider charitable giving as a fraction of household income: By this measure, religious Americans are four times as generous as their secular neighbors, even as they are a little less affluent than secular Americans.

snip

Roughly three-quarters of charity given by highly religious Americans is indeed channeled toward religion. But religiosity provides such a boost to financial giving overall that the most religious Americans actually give more money to secular causes than do secular Americans.

And how many "secular" Americans are there?  

Ehhh... go buy your way into heaven/do it because you are told if you like, whether you like it or not that's what guides the good deeds of most religious people.  If the ends justify the means, good for you.  I don't agree.

I just don't understand the complete lack of equality in the matter.  The religiouses are allowed to advertise their belief system as the humanity's salvation... but us atheists aren't allowed to do the same?  I genuinely believe atheism/agnosticism/secularism is what will save humanity.  That's why I believe in it so strongly.  

More bigotry against atheists from the Atlas, but that's to be expected.  Every minority has to deal with BS. 

After religion is destroyed, greed by and large will be destroyed.  Most people are naturally benevolent, they need religion/superstition/junk science to feel they have a superior standing than others and therefore justify their greed.

This is backwards, of course. People are naturally self-centred and need society to teach them otherwise.

Plenty aren't. 

To illustrate: This picture is no coincidence, whether or not the faithful would like to believe otherwise.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/homeless-man-tests-kindness-religions-atheists-money_n_3189871.html
[snip img]

For an atheist, you sure don't seem to put much stock in scientifically conducted research.

What scientifically conducted research?

Clinton

Around here?  Being a nice feller. 

Anywhere else?  John McCain in 2000. 

Despite what I'm sure are vast ideological and personal differences, he seems a respectable person who's interesting and has a very healthy amount of knowledge (more so than mine, I'm sure, in a number of categories). I'm inclined to say FF.

FF, despite being suburban

In all honesty, that was a rhetorical flourish to show how evil I was compared to BRTD and crew.

*SKIP*

And you will see that I played into the joke

**SKIP**

Whatever you wanna do, Nancy Boy

Forgot a big one: I was somewhat racist back as a teen in the sense that uttering epithets was okay.  Going to school at Rutgers-Camden changed all that quickly.  Now I just ironically utter racial epithets against whites for shock value at my conservative friends to piss them off, and for comedy at my liberal friends who understand what I'm trying to do. 

Despite what I'm sure are vast ideological and personal differences, he seems a respectable person who's interesting and has a very healthy amount of knowledge (more so than mine, I'm sure, in a number of categories). I'm inclined to say FF.

FF, despite being suburban

[suburban]

Wow, what a thought provoking and creative question. Surely I must reconsider my priorities! Thank you for this epiphany, brother BRTD. I've resolved to chabge myself for the better and opt for the superior and productive lifestyle & views of OpenOffice rather than my own primitive & suburban ways.

Egads!  You're a horrible?

I'll say AynRandLand for another reason.  After religion is destroyed, greed by and large will be destroyed.  Most people are naturally benevolent, they need religion/superstition/junk science to feel they have a superior standing than others and therefore justify their greed.  Societies in which religion is powerful breed this type of thought.  

Yes, forced secularist countries like the Communists established didn't work, but that's because they forced the atheism upon people.  That doesn't work because it's a slap to the face of free will.  

AynRandLand is terrible because the lack of religion will naturally result in a society that moves away from unchecked capitalism, but the Rand ideology will dictate that we can't move towards collectivism EVEN IF WE WANT TO.  

To illustrate: This picture is no coincidence, whether or not the faithful would like to believe otherwise.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/homeless-man-tests-kindness-religions-atheists-money_n_3189871.html

[it would be impossible to like anyone more than I like myself]

From my perspective it would be impossible to like anyone more than I like myself, and since I don't believe in objective value, ipso facto I'm the best person in the world and all those mentioned are 'worse'.

Not sure I can quite say this, because I can never be as amazing as Christopher Walken, but i see what you're getting at.  It's like how I was thinking about making a poll... who has the best politics in the world?  

If you don't say "me"... you're either kind of a hypocrite or calling yourself a moron, aren't you?  

No, I'd much rather that anti-Christian state be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Yes.  People have to come to religion or anti-religion on their own.  It cannot be forced by the state.  Unfortunately, they also prompted the U.S. into an age of state-sponsored Bible thumpin' and gave atheists are terrible name.