>>>Well God and Religion seem to be the leading cause of death and hate in the world - and its been that way forever. Heck that's what just caused 9/11 and blah blah blah...
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>>Now this is about the only thing I disagree with. I don't remember who, but someone once said, "Religion is not the cause of hate and destruction, merely the excuse."
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>Well humans think in terms of "us" and "them." Us are the good guys, the ones who think, look, and act like us. Them are the strangers, the outsiders, the unknown--and therefor dangerous (or the 'evil do-ers').
>Religion is one of the basic definers of human groupings, this is gonna include cultures, race, and now national boundaries too. I suppose if these groupings had more of "us" and less of "them" - then we would have less hate & destruction.....so if religion didn't exist, then it would all be "us" and there would be no "them"...right?
>Of course now that a read what I just typed, seems like a rather worthless point I just made because untill we finally discover little green men on another planet there is always going to be religion - and heck even then the suckers....ooops I mean believers.... will still believe. Oh well...

Nah. The real point is that if we didn't have religion, we'd use other excuses. Skin colour, slant of eyes, etc. If those were the same the world over, we'd use hair colour or height or nose shape or something else. There will always be excuses for hate.