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Originally Posted by Cheese
Theism leads to violence...or sorrow if you want it to be. You can look no further than the countless thousands of radical Muslims of today following their leaders blindly into war. So yes...IF man invented religion...to control the masses...then yes that very same religion can be used against the people. Id educate you on little known atrocities like the INQUISITION for example...but it might hurt your mind.
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If man creates religion to control the population (which is a theory I agree with), then it is man who is causing this evil and war, not theism. You are blaming the puppet for the puppetmaster's actions.
Also, your argument that theism causes violence is massively unreliable, as the majority of violent crimes committed has little or nothing to do with religion.
Violence is the result of man's lust for power and control. Organized religion has often been used as a means to achieve this.