eye candy

Reader's Digest三月号の記事 'WHO KNEW 13 Things Mall Cops Won't Tell You' からの引用です。
12 Some of us are hired just to be eye candy. Having a uniformed person on the property deters crime and makes shoppers feel safer. But it might also give the mall owner a break on insurance costs.
二十年程前にフィリッピンのマニラへ観光旅行で行き、市内のデパートやモールの入り口付近に警官ではなくピストルや銃を持っているガードマンがいたのに驚きました。最近は日本のスーパーでもガードマンを見かけますが、当時は日本のスーパーマーケットなどでガードマンを見かけることはありませんでした。
ところで引用文に出てくる "eye candy" は文脈からすると見かけの良い（ガードマン/ガードウーマン）の意味の様ですが、警備員に使うには合わない言葉に思えますが、辞書で意味、使用例を確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Visual images that are superficially attractive and entertaining but intellectually undemanding.: the film's success rested on a promotional campaign showcasing its relentless eye candy
・Collins Dictionary: Eye candy is used to refer to people or things that are attractive to look at but are not interesting in other ways.: Back then, women on TV were mostly seen as eye candy.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: someone or something that is attractive but not very interesting or useful: Most of the images on the website are not more than eye candy.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet

The God Delusion written by Richard Dawkins は宗教の本質を鋭く突いています。
It could be argued that, despite his own words and those of his associates, Hitler was not really religious but just cynically exploiting the religiosity of his audience. He may have agreed with Napoleon, who said, 'Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet,' and with Seneca the Younger: 'Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.' Nobody could deny that Hitler was capable of such insincerity. If this was his real motive for pretending to be religious, it serves to remind us that Hitler didn't carry out his atrocities single-handed. The terrible deeds themselves were carried out by soldiers and their officers, most of whom were surely Christian.