Originally Posted by Neapolitan

What most don't understand is that religion uses the same modus operandi as a cult, mainly "Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished." and "The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society." What I don't understand is if you come to that realization that that religion isn't all peaches and cream it's bigotry.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.