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I'm not at all hostile to religion. I had the luck of growing up in a liberal Protestant denomination(United Church of Christ). I remember a time when the church I went to ran a local ad welcoming same-sex couples after another local church expelled a lesbian couple.
Religion is our thing. It is as good or bad as we are, in equal measure. Slave-owning plantation owners cited the Bible to justify slavery, and John Brown cited it as justification for his attempt to spark a slave rebellion. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both inspired by their respective religions, as were some of their opponents(and Malcolm's murderers).