[A. Pole]

On one hand, if there were no organised religions, then bad things would not be done in the name of God. On the other hand, there exists those people that want to do bad things, and use religions as justification.

Bad people will always find some justification - religion, science, socialism, democracy, secularism, law and order, race, economy - whatever has the authority in a given time.

But the cold cruel fact is that the largest number of murders in history was committed by the militant secularists/atheists. Nobody came near!

[stuartcr]

Other than your last line, which I suspect is not really true, you are correct, bad people will do bad things, regardless of their religious affiliations. Why do you think it is that a majority of leaders that have waged wars, have at one time or another said something to the effect....'God is with us'...?

[ppaul]

the cold cruel fact is that the largest number of murders in history was committed by the militant secularists/atheists. Nobody came near!

Thanks for confronting secularist dogma with objective truth.
When you consider the fact that Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, butchered millions of upon millions of their own people, the horrible magnitude of the slaughter is without historical precedent - nothing comes close.