Look, it is totally pointless to speculate whether Martin Luther King and other evangelists would have been good people without religion. That is an absurd blind alley.

The fact is:   they cited it constantly--and doing so was very useful in convincing others to do the same. So it has been a great force for good.   Sure it's been abused--as has patriotism, capitalism, and even, dare I say it, the idea of "socialism".   That does not negate the good of any of these.

And somehow it seems we've been over this ground before.   Wonder why it seems so.




Also, in an attempt to discredit religion, it was theorized that conscience is not the same as religion since we are "hard-wired" for it.

As I said, every major civilization has had religion. Therefore it's as least as likely that we are "hard-wired" for religion.

If not, I'm still waiting for--anybody--to cite a major civilization. without religion.