There are no "Religions of peace".....

[Amarok]

Socially, levels of religiosity correlate to better neighbors and more conscientious citizens than their secular counterparts. They give more money, donate more time, volunteer in the community more, etc. They also belong to more civic organizations, vote, get involved in the community, etc. This holds even controlling for a host of demographic factors. This applies to religious liberals just as much (if not slightly more so) than religious conservatives. -American Grace: How religion Divides and Unites us by Robert Putnam.

That's about networking not religiosity and Robert Putnam is a sham 

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hristianity to me isn't a "transactionary scheme" or a way to "escape accountability". It's a love story about sacrifice and forgiveness to me. 

Yes it is and no one cares what you think 

You know precisely where your bias lies and exactly where your emotive statement was wrong. Religion doesn't tacitly justify shitiness any more than society justified slavery and oppression.. oh wait it did/does. I believe it is profound but doesn't seem a very unique motivator. People say with/without religion you'd have good people doing good and evil people doing evil but for good people to do evil things that takes religion. That's crap.

Not it's not as believing some higher authority approves of your crap is a unique motivator 

It doesn't take a moral lawgiver to be a shitty person, I posit that it takes ignoring that moral lawgiver to do that. Just because it's human instinct to find a scapegoat to avoid accountability doesn't make it true.

No but definitely help shitty people justify their shittness more then other things

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You guys just love to bitch about religion and bringing down the institution, and I guess it's the place for it. To be expected.

If by bitch you mean point out an obvious fact