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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Bad Religion's tradition has always been to try and provoke people but hopefully lead them to a better sense of who they are and what they stand for. That's supposed to make them feel better.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.