[Servant of the 9]

For a big-ideas guy, Watson is missing the bigger question: something has to be ‘responsible for most of the wars and bigotry’, and if it wasn’t religion, it would surely be something else. In fact, in the 20th century, it was. Europe’s post-Christian pathogens of communism and Nazism unleashed horrors on a scale inconceivable even to the most ambitious Pope.

Mere copycats.
Monotheism was the wellspring of genocide and hate thy neighbor for what he thinks.
Before monotheism, man attacked man in self defense or to gain resources, not from pure spite hatred and bloodymindedness.

SO9

[denydenydeny]

Before monotheism, man attacked man in self defense or to gain resources, not from pure spite hatred and bloodymindedness.

You're kidding, right?

From the earliest days of polytheistic civilization in the Middle East up to Caesar's conquest of Gaul, vicious massacres were the order of the day, mitigated occasionally by the practice of slavery.

[grey_whiskers]

Before monotheism, man attacked man in self defense or to gain resources, not from pure spite hatred and bloodymindedness.

Do you have the written contemporary sources to back this up?

"ECREE"