Originally Posted by GurnBlanston

I think these things can be used to do good or evil but, you can't build something out of nothing. I guess my point is that regardless of Religion's abstractness, you must accredit the deeds to the people. There is no way to police religion, but we can definately police the religious the way we police any other citizen. We have standards that stand apart from dogma that in a consensus we agree are bad (murder, rape, etc) and we should maintain those according to the harm it creates and not because some book says so. Ultimately, religion can only be a guide. Even in a Theocracy, it's still guide for the men that create and enforce the Law.