| l33t_haxx0r said: Religion is to blame, pure and simple. People throughout history, from various religions have fought and killed for what essentially is an idea. The idea of religion can help people and give them "hope", but it is also the number one cause of death in the world. I hope in the future, the world will realize this before we destroy ourselves over something that simply does not exist. For those who do believe in a god, I mean no disrespect and envy your faith that there is something greater out there... Me personally? Aliens is the greater power I choose to believe. |
Sorry, but this seems silly. Atheists first became relevant in the XVIII century, and as soon as they took power during the French Revolution they caused a reign of terror http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
And in the last century there have been many cases of atheistic or "militant" secular governments persecuting religious people, mainly in communist countries, but also Freemasons as what happened in Mexico with the Cristeros.
Islam has bloody fronteers, in every place in which large groups of muslims meet large groups of non muslims there are problems, be it Nigeria, India or the Philippines.
I don't think the USA should be blamed for this. I guess their biggest responsability was in helping the Talibans in Afghanistan against the Soviets, and in how friendly the USA is which Saudi Arabia.
