Originally Posted by Mutt

The 'more people have died because of religion' line that gets used ad nauseum against religion like most ideas that get repeated ad nauseum just isn't true.

Only 7% of all wars fought in history could be considered religious wars.

Far more have been killed in the name of Communism which allows no religion.

Atheists are very arrogant, the Western world we live in has been so influenced by Christianity and Judaism in its development that the truth is that even their self proclaimed intellectual rational science based superiority is due to a large extent to religion. It's impossible to know how the world would have developed without religion.

We'll all be long gone before there is a generation raised without religion, if it happens at all, but if it does it will sure be interesting what effect its absence will or won't have on how people live their lives.