[lepton]

Frederick Douglass wrote that of all the masters who had owned him as a chattel slave, by far the most brutal and unfeeling were those who made strong professions of religiosity. There's a vast difference, obviously between a religious person and a Religious person. God save us from the latter.

There's also the matter of what kind of person is able to know the Word and vigorously ignore it.

[Agnes Heep]

There's also the matter of what kind of person is able to know the Word and vigorously ignore it.

That's a good observation. In fact, I think if Douglass had assessed the situation a bit more, he would have found that the "irreligious" were actually religious--they just didn't make quite as big a brag of it.