Religion joins other causes from greed, to power, to ideology, to nationalism, and so many other reasons for humans' horrible treatment of other creatures and the planet.

Dogmatic belief and devotion to any partisan cause leads inevitably to conflict. Those causes include such things as economic theories and social movements as well as religious ideologies and nationalism. Modern history shows that atheists are fully capable of making war and conducting massacres in support of their particular dogmatic ideologies.

We tend to divide ourselves into groups depending on who believes what. The irony is that no one really knows the complete ultimate truth about any issue. All the groups have some good points and all of them are partly false. Whatever any of them is pushing is incomplete and superficial.

I don’t think that demonizing some of the groups is going to accomplish anything. Demonizing religion in general is a futile exercise, leading only to further conflict, because the religious impulse is deeply imbedded in the human psyche, and in its pure form serves noble purposes.

If we want harmony we need humility along with respect for the opinions of others.

Religion is a cancer on the human race.

It points out the truth that is NO peace where religions are concerned, in my opinion.

I am going to order that book. Thanks for the posting.