OK, Shambles, but what's your point?

I think I can safely say that organized religions do neither good nor bad, and they are neither good nor bad in themselves - it's individuals (or groups of individuals) within an organization that are responsible for the good and bad done by the organization. Now, if evil was done in the name of an organization fifty years ago, or five hundred years ago, to what extent are the current members responsible for that evil? Are they morally bound to disband because somebody before them was a son-of-a-bitch?

I think that they do have some moral responsibility for what happened before their time - at least to the extent that they have profited from the evil done by their predecessors, but that's different from bearing the guilt of one's forebears.

-Joe Offer-