MARY writes:

Lately it seems more than ever I hear the canard that religion causes war and when religion is finally gone we will achieve “world peace.” Those who believe this claim fail to recognize that simple truth that man is hard-wired for worship; absent the true God in his life man will always orient those energies toward something else: the state, secularism, power, money. Gathering up this refocused energy – often unwittingly provided by weak, non-religious liberals – the greatest evil gains its power. Look no farther than Stalin to see how much justice and peace the absence of religion generates.

In the case of France the avid pursuit of secularism was used to justify the rampant evil and sadism of the French Revolution: Madame la Guillotine; the War in the Vendee (which many scholars call the first modern genocide); the mass drownings of prisoners of war at Nantes (priests, nuns, men, women and children); etc. etc. But France’s worship of laïcité and the suppression of Catholicism will be its undoing. While watching Catholicism wither France allowed Islam to proliferate, expecting it, too, to wither, to be “healed” by bathing in the waters of their secular utopia. France will try to control Islam – which runs on the engine of a religious devotion France truly can no longer fathom – with cartoons and “reason.” From the Daily Mail: “I think those who have been killed, if they had been here they would have been able to have a coffee today with the terrorists and just talk to them, ask them why they have done this.”

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James P. writes:

Whenever I hear that eliminating religion is the way to achieve “world peace,” I encourage the speaker to start with Islam. Good luck atheizing a billion Muslims! Perhaps repeated exposure to the saccharine strains and inane lyrics of “Imagine” will do the trick.

But such people are always fixated on the largely imaginary horrors of Christianity in the far past. Present-day reality holds little interest for them.

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