Wondered when you might chip in, given all my recent posting on this subject

I’m not suggesting that they sit there and say something as cold and functional as you suggest. Listening to the religious lot on TftD and they don’t exactly sit there and say the same thing over and over about how warm and comforting it is that the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s noodly appendage is imminent: They draw on their fiction and apply it to whatever topical issue they feel is worth talking about.

From an atheist/humanist standpoint, I simply feel you can draw enough on common sense, basic human morality and humanist principles without having to resort to make-believe. It’s a slot that - I think - should encourage you to take a different viewpoint and consider some moral implications, on a topical matter. That they essentially disown a significant portion of the population, but claim to be “representative” is something of a joke.

Still, if you want warm and glowy things, how about some comment on the many positive applications of science to curing disease, reducing suffering and increasing life expectancy. Or comments/thoughts from those volunteering to ease human suffering in poorer parts of the world?

I’d take that over somebody essentially talking to themselves in the hope it might make things better anyday.