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  To educate an individual to be guided and controlled by emotion or passion in religious matters, and expect him to exercise reason and judgment in reference to other phases of his life’s conduct, would mean to teach him to act directly contrary to his religious teaching. 

Religious teachings boil down to "love," which enables a person to use their reason to justify literally anything, especially anything that will appease a "God" that is seen as perfectly moral in His willingness to torture you for all eternity for refusing to "obey" a church founded on the suffering of the most innocent man in history, while God left the devil not only unscathed, but with more power than ever!

Religious teachings, as such, boil down to requiring as much "love" of the God as a person has "fear" of the devil. And with that, and only with that, is every form of evil violence practiced in the name of religion not only permitted, but celebrated as sacred. 

No wonder the Catholic theologian Blaise Pascal famously said "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

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