Using Religion as an Excuse to Commit Evil

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On this anniversary of 9/11, it is important to remember that these events were done by terrorists. When people use religion as an excuse to justify evil, that is not religion. Whether it is 9/11, the Holocaust, slavery, any time that one group claims the right to violently control others, and ultimately destroy them, is simply an excuse to be evil.

Read full article here. (Written for the Guardian Express, Cynthia Collins, September 11, 2013)