Ken, 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
Not true from my reading of history. Religion is just a fancy word for superstition.
No one, especially Christians, believe in any religious doctrine and the simple evidence is the actions of Christians, I mean the mundane everyday actions of "Christians" that I know everyday who only engage in altruism when it costs them relatively NOTHING and violate dozens and hundreds of Biblical edicts everyday - sometimes in horrible ways like driving nails into the heads of children - with the firm hope that NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO, JESUS HAS PROMISED THEM FORGIVENESS.
But when the rogue fringe of any religion takes to the pulpit, there can be no greater harbinger of mayhem!
Hmmm, what exactly is fringe? It is actually the fringe elements of religion that practice it in its purest form.
What makes a mockery of the whole religion thing - especially the Semitic ones, Islam and Christianity - is the insistence that its their way or you're going to be killed or brutalized either here or in the afterlife.
Are you
truly a Christian if you
don't believe that your fellow human being is going to be burned in a furnace forever for not calling on the name of Jesus?
The gory spectacle in Akwa Ibom is the ultimate expression of pure Christianity. They should please spare us the apologies......Jesus has already forgiven them, for they know not what they do.
Obugi.