America is 2013 years old, apparently. :)

[sandbender]

"...It's not really fair to name people from history as examples. They did not have the modern discoveries of science or even freedom to speak that we do these days..."

C'mon I could have listed some Greeks!

Leibniz and Heisenberg are all about the 'modern discoveries of science' and Hesse died in the sixties, none of those listed above lacked the 'freedom to speak'.

"...But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

I think the last sixty/seventy years have shown that religion isn't necessary for good folks to do evil things.