In a society of anti-Semites the rabble work off their cruelty on Jews.
In another society or at another time it would be Negroes, gays, or atheists.
In one age wars are fought over religion and in another over secular ideology.
If it isn't one thing it's another.
Pretexts.
Licenses to kill.
The real causes are in human nature.
We are quarrelsome animals.
The New Atheists are wrong, right alongside so many of the old ones.
The world would not be more peaceable or less cruel for being less religious.
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