Originally Posted by lostalex

well yea, it was turned around, cause i responded to your post about good people doing evil things because of religion, and i responded that also, sometimes evil people do good things because of religion. I was referring to people who get involved with a church and get involved with charity and do good things. I know there are plenty of example of gang members who are reformed in prison, and come out and do great things through their church, especially with trying to keep kids off the streets.

You know I'm an atheist, so I'm not defending the ideology of religion, I'm just saying, that sometimes religion helps evil people do good things, in the same way that sometimes religion makes good people do evil things.

I'm also a former addict, and i know a lot of people that have become religious through the 12 step program, so I've seen that religion does give oppurtunities for "evil" people to do good things.

I don't think they need religion to do good things, i'm just saying that religion does encourage and facilitate some evil people to do good things.