Re: It's much more common to find people who want to use their religion as a club (either in terms of an exclusionary club, or in terms of a weapon), than who want to use it to truly become a more humane human being.
I totally agree with you: "...use their religion as a club" and that's how things can turn nasty! Your crazy, fanatical televangelists --Falwell, Robertson, Graham-- are but a bunch of hatemongers who instrumentalize the bigotry of their simple-minded flocks.... Religion, even in its most fanatical version, is not that harmful so long as it doesn't rise above the grass roots. In the US, however, religious fanaticism is manipulated by power elites as a whip to galvanize public opinion. There's no separation of church and state in the US, hence I also agree with Rev Rich Lang:
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Here's Rev R. Lang's uncensored paper:
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Religion, that is, a form of Judeo-Protestant monotheism is the glue that holds the US fabric together --yet people will eventually find out that instead of a "glue" their Christian ideology is sort of an "asbestos" that pervades the US polity.... You've carelessly breathed it for years, for decades... until you discovered its (potentially) lethal nature.
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