Larry wrote:
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If we eliminate religion, will they stop murdering each other?

What's this WE and THEY crap? Some kind of megalomaniacle feuge state?
Psychotic episode? Bipolar excursion? Un unusual POV, certainly,
indicative!

How could any "WE" eliminate religion (whatever that is) from this
hypothetical THEY? If you believe there is an empowered WE or
subservient THEY here your belief is itself suspect, religious essense,
demonstrably fatuous, unfounded, blindly faith based, dogmatic, thought
numbing.

Should WE demand documentary proof of every precept relied upon by any
other making any statement?

Who will vette the documents YOU need bring?

It's not far off with the keep 'em terrified tactic, though. WE seem to
need just the right frisson of anxiety, somewhere between, "What the
hell, might as well spend it" and "We gotta save up for the next
famine."

=Crap! "See the glory of the vestments of the birds of the air.
Neither do they reap nor sow."

Oh, yeah, generally, birds get eaten by bigger nastier birds, or they
die of horrible diseases or starvation. Don't get me started on seals
and whale food- whatta waste!

Terry K