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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][img]http://www.dasmirnov.net/media/users/paul/noreligion.jpg[/img][/quote]

Some of the deadliest and most violent conflicts of our times have been the result of not religion, but secular based political ideologies. WW1, and WW2 were not based on religion, but competing political worldviews, with Nazism, Fascism, and Communism. After the end of the World War 2 the conflict was then fought between the two secular political ideologies of Communism, VS the Liberal Democratic-Capitalistic west, a conflict we all known as the Cold War which left millions of people dead and injured through proxy battles fought between the west and the Soviet Union.[/quote]

Something that happened 75 years ago isn't a defense to the current behavior of the religious. A huge amount of violence in the world currently is being fueled by religious divisions.   Furthermore, religion is a conservative political force which reinforces and promotes the conflicts between religious groups -- Exhibit A to this is the way conservative Christians and conservative Muslims are bound and determined to keep the US government and Muslim populations going at each other.

Religion is an inherently evil, destructive force in the world.  The fact that there are OTHER destructive forces doesn't change that.

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That wasn't a defense but barely an example  to respond to the poster who speed the picture of a world without religion as peaceful and beautiful as if religion was the root of all evil. It’s not true that religion is the only, or unique cause for divisions and conflict between humans. There are many other ideologies and causes that have created division and conflict amongst humanity, so simply pointing a finger at religion doesn’t really count as a major argument, unless the other alternatives out there do the opposite, and the alternatives do not.

For example, political ideologies within a secular framework have been known to cause major divisions amongst the people, with left VS right, Democrat VS Republican, Liberal VS Conservative, Socialist VS Capitalist, Communist VS Capitalist, and the list goes on and on. Yet no atheist calls for the dismantling of politics within a secular framework, even though it’s been causing divisions amongst the people.

Yet with all these facts, anti-religion proponents for some strange reason try to make it seem that division and conflict is uniquely religious, when it’s obviously not the case. Or they try to argue that division-conflict caused by religion is worse than division-conflict caused by non-religious causes, such as secular ideologies, a highly convenient argument you would say.[/quote]

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