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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Children aren't born with a sense of "God". So teaching them that there might be a God (inferable because RE would include religions based on God) causes the children to lean in an improbable direction. Then they get leftfield information about how one religion regards other religions as inimical, one and of them only fit to be wiped out. You see where I'm coming from.
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Competing world views are more than capable of attempting to wipe each other out without a religious framework or a belief in a god. Marxism, for example, has proven itself adept at facilitating mass slaughter in pursuit of its aims, whilst being avowedly atheistic.
Religion doesn’t turn humans into murderers. We are quite capable of developing rationales in support of genocide without it. Actually, in ethical terms the appeal to higher authority lessens the likelihood of conflict, not vice versa.