Faith’s dark side, capacity to purify subjects of Houston Catholic artist’s paintings

[Farmer Fowweather]

4. Goodness in religion

It is my conviction that you will find many good folk in the various churches, including what Thomas Paine called "the Turkish church", Islam, because they have been persuaded by common tradition that religion is good.
But that does not change the fact that, as Lord Acton put it, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". It follows that we may as well expect a serious amount of wickedness to infect the higher echelons of any religious hierarchy. If we include the worship of Mammon, it even accounts for so much of the wickedness on Wall Street.

And of course, what if Lord Acton is right about the hypothetically Almighty Creator?

Perhaps it's better to be an atheist than to follow that synthesis.