The purpose of religion is to fight against made-up enemies like the devil, bad vibes, Bogeyman, bad karma, sin, female dominance, etc., therefore it will never be useful.
So are people really surprised when religion fails to do anything useful?
So are people really surprised when religion fails to do anything useful?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"