If religion were Wall Street, we should be calling for its occupation. The New Year is supposed to generate a bit of optimism, but in early 2012 we are not feeling very optimistic when it comes to organized religion. We sense that it is failing where it is needed most -- to guide our sense of right and wrong in a way that will promote the greatest public good. Like Wall Street, the problem with religion is not that it doesn't work, but the perception that it is not working for enough people.
Despite all the issues that divide religions and their adherents, what they share still holds great promise for humankind. All major religions wish to see Good advanced and Evil shunned and overcome. History's major evildoers spoke of the need to destroy the firewalls of moral conscience constructed by religions. As Hitler railed: "The Ten Commandments have lost their validity. Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is a blemish like circumcision."
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