It is a sinster and vicious way to enslave a population, faith. Maybe that's why it has to be a personal choice?

Yet it is entrusted to us everyday. If not a spiritual faith, how about a socio-economic one. One that lets us believe that we are right, true, powerful and good. One that lets us believe that we are and can have everything.

But then, what to do about the faithful Followers of St Motorino, brought to silence by fire, in the Piazza Farnese this year?

'Faith is what I die for, dogma is what I kill for' so the saying goes. The trouble is all faith, a negation of reason, is based on dogma