[IronJack]

If that’s true, then what happens when the opposite happens? What happens to a society when its members STOP believing in an all-knowing, punitive god and start believing that they themselves are the alpha and the omega?

[Reeses]

If that's true, then what happens when the opposite happens? What happens to a society when its members STOP believing in an all-knowing, punitive god and start believing that they themselves are the alpha and the omega?

They are following in the footsteps of the Neanderthals which were not religious vs. the Cro-Magnons that were.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, today’s Islamic and socialist worlds: 52 million US abortions, 63 million Chinese killed under Mao, 32 million Russians killed under Stalin, 6 million jews + 4 million others killed under Hitler, 3 million Cambodians, 2 million Vietnamese, 4-12 million Africans killed since the 1970’s ...

have I forgotten anyone?

Oh. 4 arrested wire-tapping the Watergate hotel under Nixon.

[chesley]

then they reach the “omega” of their society. Tha’s what.