There are, indeed, several ways in which religion is not just amoral, but positively immoral. And these faults and crimes are not to be found in the behavior of its adherents (which can sometimes be exemplary) but in its original precepts. These include: • Presenting a false picture of the world to the innocent and the credulous • The doctrine of blood sacrifice • The doctrine of atonement • The doctrine of eternal reward and/or punishment • The imposition of impossible tasks and rules
