Yes, we have your compassionate, non-threatening, non-hostile posts with which to use as a model for how religion cannot possibly lead to violence. To get a clear example of this in action, one needs only to examine your posting style. CTD, who so clearly represents the antithesis if violent posting behavior.

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That aside, there is no refuting that religion has in many instances led to violence and war; though I'll agree that it is neither a) the only thing which leads to violence and war, nor is it b) safe to conclude that all religions lead to violence and war - only that some have and can. Moreover, such remarks should not overcloud the violent Balkaniztion within individual religions themselves. I speak, of course, of schisms and fanatics. It's not just one religion oppressing another, it can also be one religion oppressing its minutiae of trivial details upon its own devotees. Again, this is not to say religion is bad in and of itself -- I, myself, am religious, yet I still make these claims -- only that religion (chiefly organized religion) has the propensity towards violence and war (or more accurately put, the people using it as their motive). There are a great many things used for violence and war, that does not make them bad. If humans had a tendency to war over which tastes better, Granny Smith apples of MacIntosh, most people would agree it's absurd to say that apples lead to violence and war.