[Rummyfan]

As for me, all things being equal, I much prefer to live in a nation where the majority of the citizens have the neurological disorder known as "belief in God." Faith in the existence of a supreme being, at the very least, eliminates any chance of people believing that they are God, which is often where the path to "enlightenment" leads, and the real trouble begins.

All the atheists and anti-Judeo-Christians seem to forget or simply ignore that the bloodiest regimes of the twentieth century - Nazism and Russian and Chinese Communism - were atheist. Look what happened there.

[grey_whiskers]

Anti-Looney-Left Sarcasm Torped ARMED. FIRE!!

To put Maher's "Belief in God makes you do crazy things, and not having religion means you're more enlightened" theory into ...

PRACTICE, why doesn't he emigrate to Abu Dhabi or Bahrain (or even Islamabad) and start publically pronouncing his "Good News" that "There is no Allah!" ?

[deepFR]

Amen to that, in the last century, communists were responsible for the deaths of over 100 million; the inquisitions and crusades numerically contrasted were drops in the buckets.