Although I am a 'believer' (CofE) and go to church every Sunday, I'm still angered by all the religions (mine included) which dominate and strait-jacket vulnerable, credulous peoples, usually (but not exclusively) in the so-called Third World, ordering them to contribute financially to gigantic, wealthy institutions when they can hardly feed themselves; forbidding contraception; enforcing bizarre practices such as Ramadan (no food or even water for all daylight hours in temperatures of 50C); FGM and circumcision of young babies/children without anaesthesia; eradicating many historical and cultural traditions and labelling them 'sinful'; imposing dietary laws which make no sense; shunning and persecuting all homosexuals; loading people with guilt and shame for lifestyles which harm no-one (for example, living with someone but not marrying them) and so on and on. Muslims, Christians, Jews and other worldwide religions all do these things, and I do not agree with any of them, neither does my Muslim husband. 'Religion' can be a heinous burden and scourge, and has been responsible over millennia for an unimaginable amount of suffering and death.