Marc, Diversity is indeed a difficult subject but the difficulty of getting it perfect should not prevent us from making efforts where it is feasible. The questions of religion and political viewpoint are some of the thorniest ones, since there is dispute about how much religion and political viewpoint are "inherited" and how much are "by choice". Of course race is also socially defined and dependent on geography and time period (there was a recent article on how "Latinos" in the USA may soon come to be viewed as "White" in much the same way that Jews are now mostly so-regarded despite historically being a significantly oppressed group. As we're both variants of atheist/humanist, I'm not sure how productive a discussion between us on the status of religion could be. -- Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/