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Originally Posted by FireFly
This implies that people who follow religions will become intolerant, as that's what religion teaches.
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I fully stand by the statement "religion is the engine of intolerance." Countless acts of brutality and intolerance have been committed in the name of whatever deity is the proclaimed focus of the religion in question. A great example of this is The Crusades of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries where people were pretty much told to convert to Christianity or be killed. The Bible does teach intolerance and barbarism. Leviticus is a virtual bloodbath.