"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
1. Is this an accurate depiction of religious atrocities throughout the millennia - "good [and evil] people doing evil things"? Or is it all just "evil people pretending to be good people doing evil things"?
2. Assuming that the answer to [1] is that religion allows good people to do evil things, then does this also hold true for Communism's atrocities? Or is it all just "evil people pretending to be good people doing evil things"?
3. Assuming that the answers to [1] and [2] are that religion and Communism allow good people to do evil things, then what's the commonality?
Edit: Note that "this wasn't true [whatever]" applies to both religion and Communism, and is probably equally valid/facile when applied to either institution (my money is on "facile").
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