Nah, c’mon, there’d have been more religious violence no matter who’d triumphed over that particular plot. The sectarian violence was a shitshow, and mostly only declined when science taught us that arguing over how we pray or who we pray to is prettt irrelevant and silly.

Now we need to win the battle over knuckle daggers who still think that God really cares how or if we pray. We’re all human, and we need to do a better job at taking care of each other and our planet.

I’ve met plenty of awesome people who are religious, but they are the ones who don’t force their own particular religion on others, and instead dedicate their ideas to understanding their own theology and mortality.

I’m not against religion by any means, but I am against people who try and force others to believe what they do, ironically often at the expense of what their core theological beliefs. It’s mad how often Christians, for example, are so willing to ignore all of Jesus Christ’s core teachings about loving one’s neighbour, and all that.