HYDROGENBOND, I had a difficult time figuring out what you meant in your last two posts. I still cannot figure out what you mean by a social science mop. It would seem you are saying that social scientists clean up after themselves. There is rationalizing going on and that is a more accurate way to say it if that is, indeed, what you mean.
However, when you refer to atheists doing the opposite of what Christianity, for example, teaches because it teaches it, you make a statement that is not very accurate. Atheists know that killing, envy, lies, etc are also unchristian because of being in the Ten Commandments, but that does not mean we atheists kill, lie, covet, etc. more than others. In other words, we really do not try to do the opposite of what religions say. It is an interesting theory you came up with, but it's the "miracle" stuff that puts bothers us.
By the way, I have always been thin as well as my brothers, and daughters, all of whom are Free Thinkers. I know of fat Baptists. . . And even tho killing is a "sin" I have never killed anyone yet (but of course, there are times when I woul like to!)
