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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (251293)	5/28/2014 10:27:07 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542136

You are just so wrong. One does not need a belief in God to constantly do good works. In fact, I would argue that religion often makes people smaller, and less kind. If you know you have no hope of a heaven, and this life is all you have, why wouldn't you strive to make this one as good as it possibly can be? The religious have an out. They might get a do over. And for some religions good deeds don't even matter. But for the agnostic or the atheist- if there is to be anything approximating heaven, we must build it here. Most of the experiments that have been done on this show that the agnostic and the atheist are much quicker in to the breach than the religious- when someone is suffering on a sidewalk, or in need of assistance. Go figure.