On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:10:44 -0800 (PST), "Bobo Bonobo(R)"
> wrote:

>On Nov 25, 3:34 am, "Michael \"Dog3\"" > wrote:
>> "Dee.Dee" > dropped this news:fiaq62$1av$1
>> @registered.motzarella.org: in rec.food.cooking
>>
>>
>> > <sf> wrote in messagenews:kaqgk31uh1fjahv8kl76b8iljo1jdsugj6@4ax .com...
>> >> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:57:47 GMT, blake murphy >
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> >>>or maybe it's some kind of residual puritan idea that folks are being
>> >>>punished by god, who seems to go in for that sort of thing.
>>
>> >> We don't have to blame the Puritans. We have plenty of modern day
>> >> bible thumpers who think that way.
>>
>> > It would be interesting to view a survey of rfc'ers of their religious
>> > beliefs.
>> > Dee Dee
>>
>> I'm agnostic at best.
>
>I'm atheist, but I recognize that it is fellow atheists who have been
>the worst villains in history, at least in total numbers. When you
>add up Stalin and Pol Pot...

what difference does that make? believing in god doesn't guarantee
you won't be a villain, just as being an atheist doesn't mean you have
no morals.

also, it doesn't take killing people to be a tyrant causing great
misery.

your pal,
blake