If I think about it rationally from a human standpoint, it seems to me to be a tool that would be used in an attempt to control people, by painting those with faith as good people and those without as bad.
That is certainly the way it was used in the Churches I have attended.
He who is without faith....is akin to a racial slur. It denotes someone other than a "right thinking person"
The integrity of the church seemed to depend on the body segregating its self from those without faith.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
