Religions are like guns...

Both religions and guns (at least, in the U.S.A.):

 - Are designed to do harmful things - destroy people, inflame conflict, scare or force people to obey authorities regardless of whether those authorities have earned the right to be obeyed

 - Could in theory be used to defy oppressive authorities and liberate oppressed minorities, but in practice get used to uphold oppressive authorities and harm oppressed minorities

 - Have fanatical adherents who don't want any limitations on what they're allowed to use them for

 - Have supporters on both sides of the political spectrum who admit that they often are used for harmful ends but insist that they can be a means to good ends, really, if in the "right" hands (the right hands always being their own)

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