Check out the motivation!

[Thats my opinion]

19. Take a look at #16.

As to your post 14, I'm unclear as to what the "nope" refers to.

You cannot tell these young adults that they are not allowed under your system to have a religious motivation for wanting to make the world a bit better. There are absolutely secular states where no religious motivation is tolerated, but that is not what the Constitution or the history of this nation has decreed. (A nationalistic form of government which has replaced religion?) Brrr. That is a chilling ideas. I was in China just after they tried it, only to realize that the tyranny created was destructive. The "cultural revolution" was terrible,and they knew it. So they opened the churches again. As a totally secular state they realized that they could not develop any serious ethical response to large problems. I was there as a consultant when this happened. I was part of a group which called ourselves, "the old friends of the new China."

I do understand the thrust of your third paragraph. You have demonstrate its truth over and over again in what you have often posted. No mater the subject, you are impelled to take a shot at anything religious.

And I just don't understand the past paragraph. I fully realize you don't believe religious persons, institutions or motivations can ever do anything good. But I wonder if that blind spot is really self-induced. If you have never seen religious power judicially at work, I'd be glad to show you a large collection of them.