Abortion, Politics, Birth Control, Suffering, Destitution, Mediocrity: Thanks a Lot, Religion!

Incongruities abound, the most obvious of which is “separation of church and state.”  If it belongs anywhere, religion belongs within the four walls of the church/temple/mosque/etc.; allowing religious ideology of any kind to seep from these walls and into our political-social system has the same effect on society as does...