Religion CAN facilitate abuse, but it is not the source. Any group, identity or fixed idea which one elects as a substitute for his own responsibility and his own ownership of his view can do the same. Hell, Darwinism was the facilitating excuse for all kinds of abuse under the label of eugenics and social darwinism. Not a very good application of Darwinism, sure, but then there are many variants of Christianity which are far crueler than any reading of Christ could justify.


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