I think people of faith contribute great things to society; unfortunately, a large percent of all societies have claimed to be people of faith solely to be able to accomplish what they wanted to do (usually steal or kill).
I don't think that religion has been bad, per se, because if the people who use religion for their own wicked purposes didn't have religion to blame it on, they would certainly find another excuse (patriotism?).
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