text: Yes well Urban II, a Pope, needed to raise some cash and decided that the First Crusade was the way to do it. That was in 1095, the 11th century, 553 years before your cut-off date. How did that work out ? Haven't we dealt with the consequences ever since ?
  
  Religion is an invention of men, in order to have power over other men, using fear. That
  hasn't changed since the dawn of what we laughingly call civilization. 
  
  The 'church', any 'church', can NOT be trusted to 'run' society because that's their whole point. To 'run' society.
  
  Well I don't care about their ambitions and I don't care about their rules, because the only thing that matters is how to live like a human being.