Who will be left behind?

[Cris]

Lawdog,

However, many of the martyrs are recorded as having acted selflessly, even praying things like, "I will give up Heaven, Lord, if you allow x and y souls to be saved."

Yet I cannot help but believe that even then their pleasure of that action of total prostrated apparent selflessness is in itself a deeply selfish act.

There is nothing wrong with being non-altruistic as a believer, God does not expect us to give up our lives for nothing, since he is a just God.

Perhaps but it is insignificant compared to the atheist who would sacrifice himself for others with absolutely no expectation of an afterlife. That is an honorable act worthy of merit.

Only God himself is capable of such high degrees of Altruism.

This is probably another of those things he can’t do. The highest act would be to sacrifice one’s life with no hope of return. How would an immortal god achieve that? Your assertion suffers from the usual theist illogic of conflicted superlatives.

War is a sacrament of the Devil.

Another god created by God. Ultimately in your mythology God must be responsible for war, it’s his universe created the way he designed it.

There will always be wars with or without religion.

Perhaps, but if life were seen as temporary and all we have then it would be seen as extremely precious and unlikely to be risked in warfare. In an atheist world war would be highly unlikely.