sandy: What about economic policies that threaten the poorest members of society in what I assume you take to be a society 'with religion'?
No, I don't think our society is particularly religious at all. I think we're fast becoming an atheistic society, and euthanasia is a good example of what's coming.

sandy: It's a bit simplistic to associate good or bad behaviour with religion or lack of it.
Of course religious people can behave badly, and vice versa. What I'm saying is that if you take religion out, anything becomes thinkable and therefore ultimately doable. Such as killing old people to save money.

What protects the elderly from euthanasia? The sanctity of human life. And that's an inherently religious idea. Atheists hate it.