I guess I question whether in the absence of religion something else would have filled the vacuum.
I think it would of. Canada had Quebec Nationialists kidnap and murder people. The IRA as much as it was Protestant / Catholic was about power. European fascists right now are brewing and I would expect retaliation and hate crimes back against non whites as a result of this.
I think it goes back evolutionarily to that outsiders are a threat to your fan being passed down. And are ability as humans to create rules to reduce decision making which freed the brain for many other tasks.
So I think without religion you still have these same groups wielding significant power using other means to convince people to become suicide bombers
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