dense 'ol Bill can agree that spirituality CAN be a force for good whether or not is is reality-based....just as it can be misused as a force for evil. Can YOU say "inquisition"?

"But all the popes and the majority of theologians up until the eighteenth century (including even the great moralist and Doctor of the Church St. Alphonsus Liguori) continued to endorse confession-extracting torture. It was not until 1816 that a bull of Pope Pius VII finally enjoined all Catholic rulers to abolish this practice.

I see all sorts of good arising from applications of spirituality to worldly problems... in every disaster there are examples. The question might be asked why more folks don't do good without referring to it.