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Correct, but there's a strong link between religion and violence in some cases: (see "the blood that cries out of the earth, book")
The Red Khmer: Part of the conflict was that they didn't want buddhism as state religion
The left behind movement in the USA: Attacks on abortion doctors, lying about contraception
Islam: Wahdaism exported by SA
Christianity: Massive amounts of deaths due to lack of contraception thanks to the Catholic church.
Northern Ireland: The other is the enemy thanks to schools split by religion (luckily a lot of the younger ones think it's a pile of nonsense)
Faith schools: Spreading other religions are of the devil and blind faith is what ought to lead government.This does not mean religious people are always non secular, or violent.
It does not mean there are no other political or economical influences.It does mean religion is a wrench that can be used to twist people into accepting things bad for society, or in the case of ISIS use damaged people as living bombs.
And it also means that all the religious people that tick their religion on the census prop up a system they may not agree with (which I BTW do not blame anyone for, people often don't know how census results are used by religious groups for more power)
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Decent law abiding Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans etc would continue to be good law abiding people if they were secular... the scary thing is that it is their faith that can make them do awful things in the name of religion...>
Correlation is not causation. Because some religious people are violent, it does not follow that religion always causes violence. There's probably observer bias. Most religious people don't make the headlines for just peacefully living their lives.