weekly question: Religion: when is it good and when is it bad

Religion is a powerful force for good and evil. Most often, damage gets done when people see their way as the one and true way and refuse to see another side. This can happen even if the source of their 'rightness' isn't religious. I found his statement that the relationship between religion and psychology is close to be most interesting. Certainly, the leaders use psychology to insert religion into their justifications for whatever they wish to see done. I disagree with the statement that the the Egyptian minister's statement was political in the sense that if one states that the sky is striped, and it isn't, pointing that out isn't political.