I respect your opinion on this IFF as it is obviously well thought out. My only disagreement is that I see the 'good' done by religion as being outweighed by the 'bad' and that often the charitable work it does is just undoing its own past wrongs.

If one took all the money used to run the Vatican, not to pick on the Roman Catholics alone, it would easily fund training programs capable of making very large number of people self-sufficient. And the damage they do by not endorsing birth control ... their charitable work doesn't even come close to alleviating the misery they cause.

DA Morgan