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Yes, I didn't say it doesn't matter, just not to me
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but it think it does matter to you whether or not you're aware of it. so neither you nor anyone you knew happened to live in nyc when the world trade center blew up, but you lived here in the u.s. it affected you in a variety of ways of which you must not be aware. so neither you nor anyone you knew lived in the area ravaged by katrina, but something similar could happen where you live.
you live in this world, and a huge number of people base their decisions on what they believe their god wants of them. you
are affected. it determines how much you pay for gas, how you are treated at the airport, how you used the internet, whether or not you can be monitored by the government, and literally countless other things.
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thanks for listing things that religion has tainted and/or ruined.
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that really wasn't my intent. granted, perhaps i listed more things that may be viewed negatively, but i also listed some things that many would view in a positive light. i live in new orleans. there isn't even a water line on my old house because the water was over the roof the for three months. my whole life got washed away. for all the negative things myself and others might want to attribute to theists, i can tell you that it wasn't the secular humanists who came down in massive force to help clean up my city. there weren't scientists driving down my street when i moved back handing out free food to those of us trying to make the best of an unbelievably bad situation. there weren't any groups of united atheists picking up toxic rubble from the streets. sure, the crusades were terrible, but mother tersa was in service to God as well.