>>>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...

If we found 'little green men', we would probably try to force religion on them too. Why, because EVERYBODY must be like US.

And if it is the us American who makes first contact, we would probably force democracy on them too.