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Fr3sh ain't livin in the USA. But that's only the beginning of what's wrong with your post.

I actually wouldn't deny that religions can and have played a role of a potent "amplifier" of violence (not that there aren't plenty of other things finding the same use), but it's more often than not not the actual reason for conflict. Poverty is a much more interesting issue in that respect.

But this isn't about whether God exists or his words are perfect, just about the consequences of religion as a whole, and whether those really can be traced back to the religions themselves or to other reasons.

Correlation is not equal to causation. First rule of statistics really. Besides the questionability of studies claiming to be able to measure intelligence, and that in very correct figures.

Thank you for providing such a nice example of how some/many atheists treat their non-belief as a religion. I mean this is exactly the same line of argument as "the terrorists are not real muslims". Not that I think that argument is necessarily flawed, but it's telling how someone supposedly...

Of course it's never been an intelligent sentiment in any way, that's why I included what's written in the bracket ;) However I did find it to be not too uncommon, and not just in people like RUS. There's quite a lot of folks out there who believe that religions are to blame for a huge part of...

Yep. However, what it does show in almost perfect clarity is that atheists can be violent nutjobs too, just as much as religious people can (not that that needed any proof, but there seem to be a lot of people convinced of this). And just as was pointed out on the previous page, I'm very...

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