With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg

This was the quote of the day on Google. The author of the quote, Steven Weinberg, is a US Nobel Prize winning physicist. The quote is from a speech that Weinberg gave in 1999. Although it seems rather clever, it isn’t really correct because it gives too much authority to religion. Yes, good people can be convinced to do evil things using religion, but religion isn’t the only way to do that. All it takes is to make people think that they are serving a higher force. You can get people to toture suspected terrorists by using patriotism. You can get them to beat up immigrants by making them think they are protecting the jobs of their family. You can get people to enslave other people by convincing them that their race is better. In fact, the real problem is that it is so easy to convince good people to do evil things.