Reply #124: I don't think religion in and of itself is the problem.

[Liberal Veteran]

Religion is a tool. A tool that can be used to build or tear down.

Right now, the leadership of the mainstream churches in America are definitely in the hands of those using it as a tool of oppression.

Quite honestly though, I am not seeing the hoards of free-thinking, live and let live Christians. If they exist in the numbers you think, they need to get off their duffs and do something. Not just about gay rights, but about science and the tearing down of the wall between church and state. Something is terribly, terribly wrong in this nation and it is being played off of religion.

Martin Luther King once said: "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

That is as true today.