I'm late to the discussion and haven't read all that's taken place, but let me again point out Puggo how foolish your argument is, and yet how prevalent such thought processes are among so many atheists who are free of the burden of religious thought.
Black people are more likely to commit crime in the US than white. Black violence, black homicides, black theft, black drug use and dealing, black imprisonment. Blacks are far more likely to have teenage pregnancy, pregnancy out of wedlock, abortions (and even if you argue for their legality, most who support them still believe in keeping them "rare, safe, and legal"), black rapes. Oh, and blacks are more likely to consider themselves religious than whites as well, and we know that's really saying something about them.
So without further evidence, formulating my own theory as a white man, I say that I am not bound by the inferior mentality that blacks have, nor their inferior culture, nor their poor work ethic, nor their lack of responsibility.
Now if I were to make such a claim in earnestness, I have no doubt that I would cause you and every other reader of this thread great offense. And why? Because clearly I am not taking into account a number of contributing factors, and instead am jumping to conclusions of causality without understanding a complex situation. Blacks and whites are equally capable, and there are many black people who have demonstrated that they are superior to each of us in every facet I've just mentioned as a detriment to that race. But there are many who have been hampered in education, economics, and maltreatment by others, who have instead become less productive members of society. And because there are more blacks than whites in such circumstances, they have found themselves more numerous.
The same applies for religious and atheist (and everything in between). There are complicating factors that you are not taking into account, and what Post Praetorian (who currently is not a believer) was doing was noting some of those factors. For you to insinuate that it is as simple as a book telling us mindless drones what to do is as insulting as saying that blacks are inferior human beings. Forget not that the most atrocious crimes against humanity were committed by an atheist government and majority of people in the USSR, crimes worse than those of the Third Reich. Perhaps if they had a book telling them how to treat their fellow human beings, they may have been more humane.
Yes, nothing shows the superior intellect of atheists than confusing correlation for causality. Too bad I see it everywhere on the Net.