If a politician professed these qualities Stanley, would it freak you
out so much? Are these bad things? I think you hit some of them
n your own post.
But those things are not unique to religion. They are just basic human values, which religions in general (though not at all always) also tend to hold, as would pretty much any modern atheist or agnostic. And it wouldn't be too hard to find quotes in the Bible about how people should do things that we would today consider horrible, like stoning people.
