Throughout history, more people have died, or been killed in the name of one god or another that disease. So when someone tells me that they are religious, I know that they are only one step away from kill me, or people that I know in cold blood.
Lets step back in time to the 1200's Albigensian Crusades, and the pope at the time, and the catholic church wanted to eliminate the Cathar heresy in Languedoc. How did the church know who were the heretics and who were god fearing catholics? they didn't thus the phrase "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" – "Kill them [all]! Surely the Lord discerns which [ones] are his",. or more simple, "kill them all, and god will sort them out." This was a time when the catholic church killed entire cities filled with people, because there were heretics in the city.
Jump ahead a hundred years, and we have the crusades where it was strongly encouraged by the church to travel to the east to kill heretics in the name of god and the church. The inquisition was formed because it was to difficult to travel to kill heretics in the east when there were plenty to kill in their own backyard. This went on till the 19th Century.
Its not over even to this day, if you were to ask a stupid redneck about the Islam religion and the answer you hear would probably not be much different from something that you would have hear in the 13th Century. And why, if Allah is all about peace and goodwill, are people willing to die and kill others in his name even today? The solution would be to ban all religion, but suggesting that would probably get me killed.
I want to point out that faith in God and/or a Higher power is not something that I am questioning here, its the organization and peoples interpretation of the word of their god, especially if there is danger to my life because I have a different belief.


