[krapp]

The problem with religion is that people take it too seriously. No one would be killing in the name of God if everyone agreed "God" was just an anthropomorphization of a set of culturally and politically related social constructs. No one would seriously be claiming the world is 6000 years old because that's how the math in Genesis works out.

No "Holy Lands" being the crucible of a thousand years of bloodshed. World leaders claiming to be guided by prophecy and interpreting Revelations would be treated as lunatics. No anti-semitism or anti-gay prejudice (or probably a lot less,) one man writing sexist opinions in a letter wouldn't be treated as a God-given justification for centuries of violence against women.