ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the effect of religion on trust in other humans, the charge that religion is intolerant and divisive, and the relationship between religion and sexual ethics. One wonders about the distrust of others in Eastern and Southern Europe. Perhaps suspicion of everyone was part of the ethos of the socialist cultures with their fear that anyone might be a government spy, though that this would not explain the mistrust of the Cypriots. There are no positive alternatives suggesting that sometimes religion brings peace, not conflict, and that sometimes men and women with strong religious beliefs are not intolerant. Sexual morality is not, in the strict sense of the word, religious, though religions usually generate their own ethical codes. One would think, however, that for many religious leaders and preachers, sexual morality is almost the only religious issue about which they are concerned.
