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Originally Posted by polak
Without religion, there wouldn't be religious extremism. The best thing that could happen to mankind is some how absolutely proving, without doubt that there is no higher power and no God(s). Then people would start realizing they and everyone around them has one go at this life thing.
Blood lust.
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Originally Posted by nik-
No, there'd just be something else to be extremist about. This is humanity.
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Religion definitely isn't the problem and without it there'd just be some other thing to kill people over. To say so with such a broad brush is to be guilty of the same misguided generalization that you blame on religion. It's much more based on ignorance, lack of tolerance and penchant of human beings to fear/hate what is different. How many wars are started in African based on tribal lines for example?
Skin colour difference, accents, blood line differences can all be used and have been used to justify genocide. Even children in school yards will pick on these minor things and it's by proper societal controls and morality that we stamp that out (for the most part) in Western societies. Obviously the same can't said in Iraq where religion has been subverted as a tool to control the ignorant.