Bunyan once said: “Religion is the best armor that a man can have, but it is the worst cloak” while these two statements by Charles Caleb Colton describe it best: “Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it”, and “Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost”.
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In Brief “I used to complain having no shoes until I saw someone with no feet”, thus at the absence of a direct simplified meaning of religion, let us say that religion is the most mystifying and baffling confusion and embarrassment that plagued humankind, and the atrocities and blunders that were and are carried out in their names under the banners of a specific deity, stamps religion as a taboo and a machine of destruction. Now, we might all agree with Lenin about religion being the “opium of the masses.”
