[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Chris

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.

I disagree. History, including recent, is peppered with religious wars, violence, genocide. In England, it has been politically motivated to keep one Christian sect or another in power. In the Middle East, the ISIS sect has more than demonstrated the state of folly we have reached as a species.