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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

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.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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

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.

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.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.