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Originally Posted by nemesis
Well from that perspective one can argue that religion caused the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials, 9/11, the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, the entire expanse of The Dark Ages, the Catholic Sex Scandal, theocracies, monarchs, etc. It should also be noted that the allies of the Germans the Japanese, saw their Emperor as the reincarnation of Amaterasu and kamikaze literally means divine wind. It is also a known fact through statistics people who identify themselves as very religious are more likely to be racists then non-religious, seculars, agnostics or atheists so the it's unlikely the eugenics issue could have happened without them playing their part. Especially in a time when atheism was frowned upon.
I think if you want to say ideologies or theories get people killed then that's your prerogative, just make sure that your not hypocritical about it like Ben Stein is.
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Ido agree that religion has been skewed and bastardized to screw a whole bunch of things up. I disagree that Christianity started the Crusades, men did. Had those men followed what they proclaimed to believe in there would have been no Crusade. They all would have eventually become part of the Ottoman Empire and been subjected to another misinterpretation of faith.
I am not sure I have heard Ben Stien say that religion has never led to problems though. Do you have proof of this hypocrisy?