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or at church, they use religion as a "feel-good" pill, where they show up to church, they have communion, drink from a filthy wine cup where other people have put their mouth on, then walk back to their sit with a face of humility and sainthood to go home afterwards and think about how they will screw up people, how they can come up with ideas how to promote hate to all those people who do not look like him/her.

My kids went to catholic schools, even though I am an atheist, you would see all these people in church (I don't go to church, but one in a while I had to go because of the school), and you would see them walk on the hall towards communion making those repentant and holly faces, then go back to their sits with a "I am pure as an angel" face, then once mass was over they would gather outside in the parking lot to gossip about everyone they saw that morning. My wife once joined the group just to see what they were doing and could not believe the vile gossip going on, so my wife left the group but before she left she said to them "don't crucify me when I leave like you have done with the rest, be good Christians instead". Of course they never talked to my wife again, which was fine with us.

Why being an atheist did I send my kids to Catholic school? 1. It was not a religious-fanatic school. Did they go to church and teach religion? Yes, but the rest of the time it was normal life. 2. Because it is a great school academically. 3. Because they taught them good discipline, good studying skills. 4. The kids that went to that school, for the most part, were great. 5. Sports.

I am sure there are lot of good religious people on this board, but it is my own personal experience that most people who attend church and pretend to be good Christians are a bunch of hypocrites, they have found religion to be a cover of all their wrong doings and many feel it is a passport to be vile.

The church at that school during mass is pretty empty throughout the year, but come Easter, there is not one sit open, and I know the people who attend, of course there are a lot of good ones, but I know those who are not, and there are too many of them. Even the priest, who I call the "used car salesman" was selling the Iraq invasion before it happened...a priest using the pulpit for war propaganda, for the killing of innocent people...disgusting!

So...to answer your question...People use religion as a cover, you see it a lot with politicians. Evangelists have answered that question very well, it is about power, and the feel-good because I attended church, all the sins against humanity have been cleared. Are Hannity, Coulter, Ingram, Ryan, McConnell, Jordan, etc. religious? That should answer your question.