While people like to tout the wars and conflicts that religion has supposedly created, the fact is that religion didn't do those things. Greed did.
Greed uses religion as an excuse, the same way Greed uses nationalism, racism, and all the other excuses for war Man dredges up. If Religion weren't around, Man would come up with another excuse. We're human, we like to kill, we like to steal, we want what our neighbor's got, so we're gonna get it. Religion is a front.
Do you actually think the Crusaders were thinking pious thoughts as they slaughtered the infidel? No, they were thinking of the power and glory they would have. The Saracens weren't defending the Holy Land, they were defending the right to control the flow of commerce through the Holy Land.
The massacre of the Cathars by the Catholics, wasn't because God wanted it, it was because the Cathars were undermining the church's revenues. If it wasn't the church ordering the killing, it would of been a French king.
WW1 & 2 weren't about religion or democracy so much as it was a fight for power and resources.
Probably the only brutalities committed solely in the name of religion was the Inquisition and Co. Although there were definitely political reasons to that too.
But, all those things would have happened anyway. People die in horrific manners all the time. Get used to it. Blaming the tragic deaths on religion isn't going to change the fact that those people were going to die anyway, whether from religion or from whatever other war was going on.
Find something better to ridicule religion for, like omnipotent, omnibenevolent Gods, or praying, or lighting incense and giving sacrifices.
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