Religion, metaphysics, new-age ideas, and even certain political philosophies enter into
the realm of untested, unscientific speculation. In my opinion, Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler
were religious in the application of their belief systems. They were not true atheists.
The subscribed to a "religious" ideology, each in their various beliefs.

Faith is used to justify abominable acts of humans one to another. Does this disqualify
faith as an agency for good? I think that the overwhelming evidence that faith has been used to perpetrate atrocities at worst and bullying ideologies at best indicates that the damage done by religious faith outweighs the good it purports to have.

The question to be answered is faith useful to being a good person, a moral person,
and a socially-conscious one. Not if the preponderance of its use is to outweigh the
good behavior of mankind.

I was for some reason unable to make a blue clicky of <
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/pastor-drake-prays-obamas-death-im-not>
but it bears looking at.

Frank