[dale_glass]

No, I just ignored it because it seemed irrelevant to the point I wanted to make.

My intent was to disagree and say that no, EA isn't come sort of of rebranding of a Christian concept for people who dislike religion, but a fundamentally different thing altogether, with different mechanics and motivations.

For that matter, atheists in general don't believe Christianity has any claim on charity, marriage or even Christmas.

[brutusborn]

Isn’t it equivalent insofar as Christian conceptions of charity aren’t prescriptive? Besides tithings, “love thy neighbour” or other Christian ideas can be interpreted in infinitely many ways, similar to EA.

I think the morality of Christianity is the old-testament part and the charity/universal love is the New Testament part and thus more the focus of Christianity (obviously this depends on your particular sects interpretations of the scriptures).