dangers of religion from 1 corinthians 13

The first step in backsliding is to put one's service for Christ ahead of one's love for Christ.

The Oxford scholar and apologist C. S. Lewis... once closed a lecture to a group of apologists like this:  I have found that nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologis...

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.