It leads to all sorts of deranged behavior. Like this:
Buddhist animal ritual does not bring peace to N.J. environment regulators:
PATERSON, N.J. — Members of a Buddhist sect bought hundreds of eels, frogs and turtles and set them free in the Passaic River, hoping they would survive in the once-polluted stream and realize their karmic potential.
or this:
Hamas TV star, 11, wants to be a doctor or a martyr:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her pink bell-bottom jeans as she twisted on a chair inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters. The afternoon light bounced off the sparkly outlines of butterflies on her frilly top, and a colorful hijab framed her 11-year-old face.
Saraa wants to be a doctor. If she can't, the young star of Hamas television's best-known children's show said, she'd be proud to become a martyr. Saraa says little Jewish girls should be forced from their homes in Israel so that Palestinians can return to their land.
I'd like to live in a world without religion.