I like your example of organized religion doing some good and pointing to the civil rights movement.
Now juxtapose that against the most ardent force in America trying to keep blacks in pseudo-slavery: The Christian churches of the South.
It was another case of a religious war ... and the only reason I feel at all good about it is that the good guys (in my opinion) won one.
If it hadn't been for "good" Christians and their churches supporting the KKK, supporting segregation, supporting the poll tax, supporting the drinking fountain, equal-but-separate schools, etc. policies it would not have taken a civil rights movement to solve the problem.
And it doesn't take too much imagination to look at present-day America and see those good Christians again trying to deprive a group of equal rights under the law.
