Personally if religion makes you burn people at the stake, start wars,
keep people ignorant, lock your women up & abuse them etc, it's fails
the sniff test.
You paint with too broad a brush. Those are not things happening today,
or in this country. I can cite plenty of non-religious people committing
atrocities, what would that prove?
If those are things you want to do, then at least be
honest and say your doing so because you don't want people with other
values possibly over running your part of the planet.
The fact is that most charitable organizations today are faith-based,
the Salvation Army being just one of those. They don't get a whole lot
of press because the things a few misguided zealots do is a lot more
newsworthy.
Gary VanderMolen
