"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."

"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
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Einstein was anything but a militarist but these two qoutes illustrate that with the religious fundamentalist terrorists we're dealing with a meme that invokes a moral imperative to slaughter from a deity that produces actions that are pure evil in the human sense. This thinking is not something that can get negotiated away at an international meeting. This kind of thinking to that degree when expressed in actions such as Sept 11th endangers everyone on the planet.

We saw this type of evil expressed with the NAZIs pre-WWII. Their "ethics" and philosophy (not religious based) authorized actions of well documented evil that could not be negotiated away