Quote Originally Posted by elevenism View Post
Yeah...this is true, to a degree. Perhaps religious extremists would have killed people for some other reason.

But, I truly believe that some of these people WOULDN'T commit violent acts, if it weren't for religion.
The biggest mistake, generally, when dealing with senseless acts, is to accept seeing it pinned on something unrelated but equally senseless, like supernatural beliefs. It's a red herring. It's an easy trick. At this point, most of the time, religion's just coded language. Most of the time, I feel like when people are talking about their deeply held convictions, it's blatant doublespeak.