secular superstition.

Americans, he says, suffer appalling stress and anxiety due to the lack of universal health care, the competitive economic environment, and huge income inequalities, and under these conditions belief in a supernatural creator and reliance on religious observance provides relief. By contrast, the middle class majorities of western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan have secure enough lives not to seek help from a supernatural creator.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/dec/08/religion-society-gregory-paul

and then they say christians are superstitious?
atheism is socialism. they believe in government, in equality. that's their religion. they know nothing about economics, and thus see humans as poor victims, who are good, and when things go bad, it's because of religion. people aren't capable of making free choices apparently.


the doctor was professional yet easy-going, and it was totally free. Healthcare here is universal, state-run, tax-subsidized, and it couldn't be better. (Not a death panel to be seen for miles.)
No problem: the county provides taxi service for my daughter, free of charge. And the taxi drivers are unionized, so they are well paid, have excellent benefits, ample vacation time, and are thus in a relatively chipper mood. (They're also well dressed and their taxis couldn't be cleaner.) 


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-zuckerman/imagine-no-religion_b_731548.html

anyone with the least bit of knowledge about economic and cultural malaise because of unionism, welfarism and multiculturalism and feminism knows that this guy is talking shit.