Survey: Religion is "the new social evil"

[Norton]

Religion is ‘the new social evil’

A CHARITY set up by an ardent Christian to fight slavery and the opium trade has identified a new social evil of the 21st century - religion.

A poll by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation uncovered a widespread belief that faith - not just in its extreme form - was intolerant, irrational and used to justify persecution.

Pollsters asked 3,500 people what they considered to be the worst blights on modern society, updating a list drawn up by Rowntree, a Quaker, 104 years ago.

The responses may well have dismayed him. The researchers found that the “dominant opinion” was that religion was a “social evil”.






Read on, my dear.....The Times

[jagy]

Scheinbar setzt sich die Erkenntnis durch - hoffentlich nicht das letzte in dieser Richtung.


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INGLIP HAS BEEN SUMMONED - IT HAS BEGUN!

[jdf]

[Agnost]

Tja. Quäker waren schon immer der Sauerteig im reformiert-protestantischen Teig.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%C3%A4ker