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
With or without religion, good people can behave well and...
With or without religion, good people can behave well and...
With or without religion, good people can behave well and...
With or without religion, good people can behave well and...
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Jean de La Bruyere said, “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.” When we go through life and we see people doing evil things, we should remember that it is not always because they are bad or evil people. Often times it is because they have been told that this is what God wants them to do. Without religion, those who do evil would simply follow the rules of the society in which they live. The idea that there needs to be a higher power to tell us what is right or wrong is an important part of understanding why good and bad people do the things that they do.

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