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Flippant comment - what about agnostics?
Very very simplistic - Animals are terrorial and kill each other over land. Religion just justifies it.
As more proof people on here have come to blows from here. Even the jumping on a bandwagon and pick on one person just like children in a school yard.
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I didn't feel the previous poster's comment warranted a long drawn out answer, where basically he was saying that everything would be better if religion didn't exist etc etc.
Don't think a longer comment would change their mind...When you take out South East Asia (China, Korea, Japan etc), the proportion of religiously unaffiliated people is very small.
Instead of worshipping a god and following a set of rules and a moral code from a holy book, moral values are traditionally derived from ancient philosophers and their books and teachings.
Doesn't mean that China and its neighbours haven't been at pretty much constant war over the past 4000 years...
Acliff
Thank you for your helpful input, good luck with solving that issue...
I guess there a belief that atheists would be non violent and live in perfect harmony?
(quick google search brings up League of militant atheists who helped Russia kill clergy and committed believers)
While humans desire being part of a community, order and also have a fear of death, humans will seek religion, and either violently or non-violently convince other people that they are right or wrong.