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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

This argument by Awareness is a fool's argument. You have to first define religion before you can blame religion for various ills. If we define religion as taking care of widows and orphans and keeping yourself unspotted from the world as James does then all of these sins were not committed by religion but rather by evil men and impostors hiding under a cloak of "religion".

The Social Security Administration takes care of widows and orphans with Widow's Benefits and Children's Benefits for survivors of deceased workers. Since only Jesus was unspotted from the world, it seems that SSA is as close to James' "definition of religion" as anyone. Thank God for FICA.