Enter......
God's lawyer.....otherwise known as MTW, or " thou irrefutable one" (wiz of a wiz of a wiz...).
I mean, truly, if God DID exist, why would God want you to pray to him/her for guidance when he/she gave you all the facilities to make decisions yourself?
Because there are wrong decisions/paths we can go down, that we think we know best. What's wrong with guidance?
Humans aren't omniscient.
I think Ana' made an important point though. It's the
illicit process of the major term to suggest that religion is evil, based on viewpoints of Christianity. Or that even Christianity is evil. Or to use examples of bad Christians.
You're defining "progress" and "evil", on your own terms. Using your definition, I could logically argue that it is correct to let the poor die and decrease the surplus population, because it's wrong to stand in the way of progress and the poor slow us down. Therefore let the weak die according to evolution, as clearly science shows that this happens, so just let it happen, right?
According to your terms, selfish progress is apparently all that matters. Since when is not being selfish,
evil? No offense - I don't mind progress, but what about the baba-slugs? I don't like stepping on them, because something or someone gave me a conscience.
I engaged in reductio ad absurdum at the request of my disfunctional compulsive contaminatrix that regurgitates anomolous fallacious recognition processes in random bouts of severe over-thought, thereby contained via the irrefutability cells in my left hemisphere.
So can call me Solomon if you want.