Here's a very pious-sounding wish from the Pope Francis thread:

I can only hope---no I don't have the temerity to call it pray---for humans to continue to evolve psychologically past the social virus called religion.
Atheism, freedom and truth await.

Yes, I'll freely admit that there is much harm done in the name of religion, especially in the name of my Catholic denomination. Still, I know a huge number of intelligent, fair-minded, loving people for whom religion is a very important part of their life. They are quite possibly just as intelligent and insightful as our poster. But for them, religion has meaning and value. However, they have a different perspective than has our poster, and our poster finds that unacceptable.

If you look around at the religious people at Mudcat, very few of them have any desire to proselytize, or to "lord" it over anyone. For the most part, they just want to be left alone.

-Joe-