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“So, Richard, you are saying that there isn't ONE religion today that is free from your claim?
There isn't ONE that kept free from fighting in any of the wars of the 20th century and as a result didn't kill their brothers in the faith?
Is that your final answer?
KT”

KT and some others,
You keep missing the point. Your 165,000 preaching in Germany are just the tip of it and part of the problem. All religions share a common trait. They all profess to have learned, or been told, or god gave them signs, or they are directed to, follow, preach, live, exist in a particular fashion. And that those who do not abide, will not be saved, enlightened, rewarded, etc. Now read carefully, and pick out the words or thoughts that apply to your individual belief. Do not go down the path that one or some of these words do not apply to your own belief. This essence is in all religions. Period. Sorry, that’s not my opinion, but the opinion of thousands of scholars with peer-reviewed research.

Now the only way to attract members to something that cannot provide a real world repeatable result is to make amazing claims (that you don’t have to back up). So all religions claim to be the right one (of course, who would knowingly follow the wrong one), this leads to an “us against them” philosophy (stronger in some religions than in others), this in turn is one of two major causes of bigotry, hatred and intolerance (the other is race/culture). And the cause of wars in all centuries and timeframes, on and on.

So, by claiming that all the others have it wrong, and only you or your group has it right, you continue to promote the vicious, cycle over and over. Name one religion who claims they don’t know the right way to attain whatever flavor of heaven, existence, enlightenment, etc., which they are promoting
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That is why I do not bash Christians any more than any other religions. They are all fundamentally (pun) the same. What is wrong with one; is wrong with all of them. I try every day and in every way I can think of to stamp out racism and cultural intolerance. Why would I not try to do the same with the other cause of evil religion?

PS. Yes there are some variants of religions that are non-violent. But they are not guiltless. By promoting the idea (unsupportable idea) that there is some kind of god or such, and rejecting or opposing the teaching of science and the promoting of critical thinking, they prolong this eon old agony of ignorance, intolerance, hatred and bigotry that all religions have a hand in. Religions prey on people’s ignorance and insecurities. Stop the evil of religion.