In Reply to: I think it is interesting to note posted by lydia on September 26, 2003 at 11:24:35:
Perhaps you forgot about this song...or about the genocides committed in the Western world in the name of God. There are too many to list them!
Religion has never acted as a restraint at high power level, but only a lower level, on the people it was supposed to enslave. (Just think about the rank and file as opposed to top leadership in the Family for a watered down analogy) At the levels of the powers that be, religion has usually been used to JUSTIFY the zeal and fanaticism in killing others, and to fuel most kinds of discrimination. It is a Machiavellian ordeal, and that is why it is important to know history.