Religion kills

[Fake Messiah]

You have a tendency of vastly overstating your case, it seems: how on earth could you say that religion accelerates those tendencies, when you only have one sample group and no way of making a comparison?


"It's hard," is not the same thing as "it's impossible," and frankly, given the shrinking demographics of western religions, it might not be as hard as you'd think.

The root meaning of the word "religion" (from re ligare') is to bind together into a greater unity. That's what it does. It forms and propagates an in-group that works for the increase of that group.  Egypt is a prime example of civilization from religion.

What binded together people into civilization was agrarian revolution. Religion was created to take people's money and to build castles for priests, later these temples were proclaimed as national treasure so that people are obliged to pay for it indefinitely.
But of course I'm talking to a person that only learned about the world from some particular religion that branding it to believe that their God and religion is source of everything and that every other source of information is false and from the devil.
Just like your claims of etymology of the world religion:  Cicero derived from relegere "go through again" (in reading or in thought), from re- "again" (see re-) + legere "read. But then you have Augustine who connects it with religare "bond between humans and gods."

In the ancient times it didn't matter to people what you believed in, there were no "Nation under one god", although they didn't like atheists. Only with the arrival of Christianity did people started looking at other people as enemies because they believe in other god then stupid Jesus.

Look how they're binding: