When Religion Is Good For You

Religion is bad when it fosters and legitimizes violence.
Religion is bad when it is infected with hypocrisy.
Religion is bad when it becomes a source of spiritual pride.
Religion is bad when it becomes in end in itself.
Religion is bad when it becomes a means of domination.
Religion is bad when it becomes an apparatus of coercive power.

But religion can also be good; not only good, but absolutely necessary. Religion is how we pass on the faith from generation to generation. Christian religion is the practices of prayer, worship, scripture, creed, sacrament, and justice that form us into Christ-like people. Christian religion is what binds us to the Christian faith Only by the practices of Christian religion will we survive the tsunami of secularism.