i remember my grandmother reproaching my cousin and the neighbor children , telling them that capturing lightning bugs and strapping them into grass plaited pinky rings was a vile form of injustice as they too were heavenly creaturesthe sentiment rather than the religiosity still seeming eminently truthful and to this date making me wary about exploitation of animals , human or otherwise , and cognizant that to say that religion has only been a destructive force81 is a vast oversimplification when good and bad can come from virtually anything .