Unity Through Faith?

[Alan V]

And I thought I was misanthropic.

Nothing you've posted gives me the impression that you would be misanthropic.

Yeah, I've been struggling with it lately.  I try not to be too pessimistic about human nature in my posts.

I do think that people are divided by lies, imagination, and tribalism.  I just don't want to condemn all of us that way.

In so far as people can be united at all, it seems possible only on the basis of factual information, i.e. reporting, scholarship, science.  

That's a big part of what atheists do at these forums -- we share information.