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Patrick D wrote: “Being a cynic and skeptic, I have no problem ridiculing nonsense. I may  respect an individual,  but feel no obligation to respect any idea, especially the more absurd religious claims.”

Mankind has always wanted easy, magical solutions to all its problems.  Christians claim that if everyone would give their hearts to Jesus, everything would be fine.  Ideas like that are pipe dreams and you are right to ridicule them.  I was just talking about the underlying idea that it is possible to overcome greed and hate.  That’s a worthy goal, because if we can’t somehow manage to do that, we might as well write off the Human race right now as a failed experiment in evolution.

Honestly the way things stand right now at the present moment, if I heard an announcement that an extinction-level asteroid was on its way to Earth, my vote would be that we do absolutely nothing to prevent it.  If we as a species are so stupid that we can’t even acknowledge the damage we have done to the Earth through our greed, then I say let nature clear the decks and try again.