In God’s Name Kennedy Emetulu Religion can be a good thing. It has showed over the years its power to bring social stability and individual redemption. It gives man useful education about life and how to treat a fellow man, imbuing him with a sense of purpose and a sacrosanct mandate to eternally seek something greater than himself. But when the rogue fringe of any religion takes to the pulpit, there can be no greater harbinger of mayhem! History has proven both sides of religion as true. Of course, when it comes down to it, those using religion to wrought physical and psychological destruction on their fellow man are usually condemned by the more sober sections as not practicing the ‘true’ religion. But, in the meantime, we have to either win or lose the war they’ve waged, with huge consequences for society either way it goes! Yet, the beauty of secular society is not in a professed irreligious stance, but in the constitutio...
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