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[quote=Anonymous]The whole quote is: "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." Steve Weinberg

I’ve been thinking about that since it was quoted in another thread and found the following Biblical references to the concept on Google: 
The Bible includes several verses that mention God being on our side, including Psalm 118:6, Psalm 124:1-8, and Psalm 108:13.

Psalm 118:6 
•	"The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?"
Psalm 124:1-8 
•	"If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel say— if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us, they would have swallowed us alive"
Psalm 108:13 
•	"With God on our side we will win; he will defeat our enemies"

I know that Mao and Stalin were atheists, but they didn’t kill because of that; they killed because they were bad people.  Meanwhile, battles have been waged on the promise of winning because God supposedly wanted it.

What are your thoughts on this?
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