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[tranq]

Muslim countries live like the dark ages still exist - for example a lack of womens rights, the beleif of killing none beleivers (which is in the koran). The vast majority of all terrorists are Muslim - therefore its obvious their religion encourages them to kill.

[Autoband0]

The vast majority of all witches are female - therefore its obvious their sex encourages them to be evil [witches?].

Rite?

[redseraph]

yep!

Religion is the no1 killer of all time throughout history. Millions of people have died in the name of <insert god> and will continue to oppress, dictate and kill others in their blind vision.
Christianity, Islam, Jediism... It doesn’t matter we will wipe ourselves out in our quest for power which is all it really comes down to.

Couldn't help noticing this slightly retarded post.

How about the French Revolution, the Boer War, Crimean War, WWI, WWI, Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf 1 & 2.
Spanish Influenza, Smallpox, AIDS, Cancer, Alcohol abuse, Malaria.
The atrocities of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Milosevic, Mugabe.

Apart from a few Islamic theocracies, right wing GOP evangelicals and Al-qaeda Islamist terrorist thugs, there is hardly a genuine connection between religion and a quest for power at all, whether Christianity, moderate Islam or Jedism.

But please, go on generalising

[Safri]

what about the crusades, or the sectarian violence in many parts of the world, both now and throughout history?

[redseraph]

Crusades was a largely political alliance between the papacy and european nobles to reclaim culturally and religiously significant territories in the Middle East, most notably Jerusalem.

Of course, religious motivation was behind it, alongside racial, cultural and political motivations. The Pope had a lot to gain by urging powerful nobles and rulers to unite behind a cause of his choosing, rather than turning on him and eroding the powerbase of the Vatican, which had been happening in the centuries leading up to the first crusade.

Sectarian violence like the trouble in Northern Island between Catholics and Protestants, and in Iraq between Shi'ites and Sunnis? Their faith is a mask for the power hungry crooks that use terror and violence and profoundly non-religious means to achieve their ends. If not religion, they would soon find another motivation or ideology to rally their cause.

I'm not necessarily saying the religion is a good thing, I'm saying it's simplistic and naiive to attribute religion as the cause of these problems. And to say "religion is the no1 killer of all time through history" - that's just not the case at all when you think about it