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Date: 2004-11-10 05:06:34

Comment:

Nazi Germany used religion to there own ends as oppposed to religion creating Nazi Germany.  Most of German high command was in to all sorts of strangness (occult genetic dominance theories etc etc) that singling one aspect of their twisted minds is wholly unproductive and misinformative.  
My point about ideologies was that you can only ever look at there ideals not there application, thus most religions are good as they esspouse ideas that are for the benifit of society.
Your point that religion is evil looks only at extreme circumstances. You might as well say democracy is evil because of the crime within its society, or that teachers are evil because some teachers are child molesters.

Religion has done more good than evil, I guess all those orphanages, alms for the poor, comfort for the bereaved and hospitals were for nothing then, not to mention the art music which enriches our culture, the idea that you should help your fellow man etc etc.
The reason you see religion as a factor to many evil things is because religion is a factor in nearly everything good or evil, once again I must say it is  application that will generally make somthing evil.