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Good faith.(Bird's Eye)(religion is not a behaviour modification device)
The whole idea of religion as a behavior modification device rubs me the wrong way. Faith is not a coat you throw on to make yourself look and act better. Promoting belief because it might lower the crime rate or have some similar utilitarian benefit is an egregious misunderstanding of religion's actual importance, and an offense to real believers.
As the verses of an old spiritual put it:
Religion's like a blooming rose, None can tell but them that knows.
If you feel the true presence of God in your life, everything else is colored by that. And if you find yourself separated from God, there is no faking a relationship.
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