Religion

"Religion is a realm ruled by hoax, and indeed there have been many. One of the most famous recent ones is the one about Atheists demanding the FCC block all religious programming, which still attracts believers 25 years after it was revealed to be a hoax. Older hoaxes include the House at Loretto, and the Piltdown Man, a hoax by religious activists that attempted to embarrass scientists. Of course the infamous Shroud of Turin, a hoax itself, has triggered several additional hoaxes which attempt to "prove" its authenticity. Even though the Bible itself describes Jesus' burial as having used TWO seperate pieces of cloth (Book of John), the continued fanatacism and irrational rants of the Shroud-O-philes proves that for every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill. History shows than when such people gain civil power, genocide and atrocity result. There has never been a religiously dominated nation in all of time that did not oppress its people in the extreme, claiming it was the will of the gods." - Pilfered from the web long ago and now I cannot find who to attribute it to.