[No Left Turn]

Count again. Take the 20th Century alone. World I, World II, various Communist regimes (Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim Jong IL). Religion had nothing to do with the hundreds of millions who died last Century in various wars and progroms, and those numbers stupendously surpass all those killed in the name of religion in the history of man kind. States, not churches, are the most efficient mass murderers, by a long shot.

[delphine]

States, not churches, are the most efficient mass murderers, by a long shot.

Very true, which is why it is imperative to keep these entities separate. Religion has only been dangerous when it has wielded state power (e.g. Saudi Wahhabism).