[anamax]

etc includes big govt folks too. Since they're both more numerous and more powerful than enfironmentalists.

However, I don't see the atheist connection. Yes, some atheists are big govt types, sure, some do, but "sacrifice for the stranger because ..." doesn't seem to be an essentially atheist characteristic.

[pitt1980]

I think the point is that sometimes atheists are more influenced by ideas that come from religion than they realize

[esrauch]

And yet if they say anything otherwise they are accused of being nihilists.