Try the Inquisitions, the Crusades, the slaughter of Christians by the Romans, the religious wars of Persia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt (to name a few), human sacrifice (in many religions), etc. And those are just quick examples off the top of my head.Try religion.
Rick
Do you have any empirical data to demonstrate this?
You could even consider the Black Death to be indirectly caused by religion in that cats were killed by the religious as they were believed to be "Servants of Satan," and as a consequence the rat populations of Europe ran rampart and spread the plague.
Sounds like empirical data to me.
Perhaps it's just people who want to kill and will justify the strongestIf a person is killed because he doesn't accept the religious beliefs of another, it doesn't matter if that killing is "justified" by the religious reasons or not--the fact remains that it resulted directly from religious belief and thus was the direct result of religion.
political/cultural/religious reasons to do it.
Sorry, Jim. I'm not attacking religion, but the fact remains that religion HAS resulted in more deaths by violence than any other single cause.
Rick
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