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Scary Toothbrush Prompts Shutdown of World's Busiest Airport
McGruber writes "The big buzz for travelers today is the story of how a scary toothbrush prompted the closure of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 'Airport officials told Channel 2 Action News that an electric toothbrush began vibrating inside a bag checked onto an AirTran flight, causing workers to alert airport officials to the strange noise.' The terminal and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) subway were both temporary closed 'out of an abundance of caution.' ATL has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, and by number of landings and take-offs since 2005."
Ideally, you're right, but all this is assuming religion doesn't teach something specific. Science has no holy book telling people what to do. Religions do... so while you can't really blame science when some politically motivated atheist blows up a building (did Einstein tell him to do it), it is perfectly fair to blame religion when somebody carry's out it's instructions and, for example, beats his wife. Do all religious "follower" follow their religion to the letter. No, and so it's not fair to judge all of them, but that doesn't mean those who would claim to follow a doctrine aren't more likely than others to have a tendency to adhere to it's tenets.