Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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