To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
Religions themselves are... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.
Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.