Look at what Steve Shaw said: Well this is true, but the argument troubles me somewhat. You won't catch me defending religion in a month of Sundays, but I'm a bit hesitant about this bad-stuff-done-in-the-name-of-religion mantra. I don't think that most of the stuff alleged to have been done in the name of religion was any such thing. Bad stuff is done in the name of greed, or imperialism, or whatever, but religion is all to often used as the covering excuse. Which is not to say that bad things are never done in the name of religion, far from it. But bad things are done in the name of all sorts of things. I won't single out religion in spite of the fact that I think religion is by far the worst thing that has ever happened to the human race. Next time you hear of something horrid done in the name of religion, ask yourself whether religion was just the excuse, the means of justifying.

Hey, I agree with that - although I think I'd say that people do bad stuff, simply because they want do do bad stuff, and everything else is an excuse.

-Joe offer-