One last comment and I'm off the subject.

The vast majority of the peoples of the world adhere to one religious belief or another. You consider it to be nothing more than superstition. Very well.

But if you are going to accomplish anything, you have to work with it or around it. Trying to confront it head on by dismissing people who believe this way as "irrational" only alienates the very people who can do something about what needs to be done. You may feel you've made your point, but you wind up with the very people who can do something turning their backs on you because they consider you to be irrational. Not very productive.

Don Firth

P. S. True, it should not have been brought up. This is the curse of the "knee-jerk atheist."