It started out as a discussion over dinner about religion being a necessary tool of evil in politicking. And then it suddenly occurred to me; isn't religion the devil itself?
If there wasn't a continuous polarisation of "good" and "evil" and the subsequent reinforcement of it, would there even be a division between the two?
Rhetoric lightbulb-moment; without good, would there be evil? Vice-versa - without evil, what is good? Where is the thin, grey line that tips one over to one side or the other?
The use of religion as a control-tool is inherently dependent on the continuous propogation of the struggle between good and evil. But doesn't the precept of good and evil exist only in our own heads?