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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
the worst eras of humanity have occurred under political systems aligned strongly with religion.
The single worst catastrophes of human against human are due to differences in religion.
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that is absolutely full of shit. what about the cold war (i am talking about the proxy wars fought in Asia, Latin America and Africa during the 1950s-1990s), or WWII? or Stalin? was any of that religious? and yet these events killed hundreds of times as many people as any religious war or any disease previous... we are talking about hundreds of millions of people who have died or were killed for reasons that had nothing to do with religion..... your logic is faulty.
you just happen to be more motivated to look at religion as a cause of human suffering, and this bias has made you overlook the reality of the 20th century, where religion has little to do with the actual conflicts. today the poverty gap between developed and developing nations is the major contributing factor in war and human suffering. religion is just a clever subterfuge in the 21st century....