Iran's morality police to resume headscarf patrols

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Iran's morality police to resume headscarf patrols
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Religion is perfect for making normal people act like a bunch of sociopaths.

” Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

You gotta source that quote, fam. I wanna know ^^

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful

Lucius Annaeus Seneca. All it took was copying the line into Google. I'm surprised how often people forget that they can do this.

Yeah, but have you tried Googling that "quote" supposedly from Madonna?

I was hoping you guys might think I was clever enough to come up with it.

/s

Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.

Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.

(most forms of) Religion is constructed to be exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.

FTFY

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion."

-- Steven Weinberg