I have nothing against religion as a private set of convictions, and I do not know who was beleaguering Mrrzy with the shades of Pol Pot and the like, but it brings up a very important distinction.

The mad militants with large armies are dangerous NOT because they do not have a religion but because they have no sense of ethics.

The failure of ethics is a failure in human rationality and imagination, not a failing in worship or dogma.

It is the abuse of an inherent human potential to think through courses of action and sort them on the basis of the widest benefit.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with religious belief.

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