Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal, Roman Catholic
Blood spilled in the name of God ...
WHEN RELIGION BECOMES EVIL
by Charles Kimball
National Catholic Reporter
Book Review
by Stephen J. Duffy
"Religious ideologies masked in religious symbolism stoke the fires within and without, enflaming hatred of the out-group and dividing the world into armies of God and dark satanic empires and sending each camp into “holy” wars against the enemy its ideology creates. Religion has been, and sadly still remains, as tragically ambivalent as any of our highest human achievements. We do well to ponder this in our flag-waving republic poised on the brink of another war."
Stephen J. Duffy is professor of theology at Loyola University, New Orleans. This review was written January 10, 2003, two months before Bush began his war in Iraq. And now there are rumblings about Iran.
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