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If one looks around with an unblinkered ey, one can see atheists who are truly good human beings, with moral and ethical values that we might all aspire to. One can also see devoutly religious people who pay lip service to God while figuratively stabbing their fellow man in the back at every opportunity.

The converse is also the case, so it would seem obvious that religious devotion does not, per se, make a good man, nor atheism, a bad one.

Buddhism would seem to be one of the few religions which, in its dogma, has not promoted evil actions by its followers, though I am sure there have been evil individuals who have claimed to be devout Buddhists.

It is not my contention that true believers in organised religious sects are responsible for any of this, but rather that generations of the faithful have been misled by zealots and fundamentalists.

Don T.