[GoNative]

I don't totally disagree with you at all. But we can always strive to be better. Whether it's religion that helps you do that or just being a good person I don't care. I maintain though that one of the main reasons we have the sorts of issues you claim is that we promote pride as a virtue rather than a sin. Somewhere along the way things have gone awry. Pride promotes feelings of superiority which promotes intolerance. It's not a good thing to promote. Be thankful if you were lucky enough to be born in a good country but lets stop promoting pride or patriotism. They generally only lead to bad things as far as I'm concerned.