RELIGION AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING

ABSTRACT
It is difficult to contemplate a religion without moral values; every religion has
embedded in it a sense of values that are morally rooted. Interestingly too, religion has
within its nature a way of promoting, communicating and enforcing the internalization
of its values. Whereas some religions openly use threat to win and compel converts to
identify and align with their tenets, some are subtle in their approach to both the way
they win converts and profess the faith. Religion offers a lot of opportunities that could
be used to promote positive values like love, hard work, diligence, forgiveness,
tolerance, charity, etc, checkmate excesses such as corruption, non–compliance to rules,
among others just as it could promote fanaticism, division, violence and mediocrity
when mishandled.