[Reincarnate]

"Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion."

-Stephen Weinberg



If you want a modern day example, just look at same-sex marriage / homosexuality, for starters. This argument that somehow it's not religion that's the problem but rather "evil people who abuse religion" -- I think this could not be more incorrect.