It has also been used to build hospitals and orphanages, to feed the poor, by conscientious objectors against war, by Martin Luther King to promote civil rights, to raise Malcolm X out of being a thug, to free Johnny Cash from self destructive drug abuse, to inspire Mavis Staples and the Blind Boys of Alabama, to drive the British out of India , inspire George Harrison and Carlos Santana , to end slavery etc...etc....etc... Originally Posted by Joey_Gleet
Fair point, what you say is true. . . I will not be like so many others and simply deny the truth for ideology. Religion has also inspired people like mother Theresa and Jimmy Carter. It has done plenty of good and plenty of bad. . Religion was used both to defend slavery and to end slavery. If more "religious" people were like Gandhi, MLK, Jimmy Carter. . . instead of people like GW Bush then the world would be a better place.