Persecuted Christians

[Esquilax]

Maybe, maybe not. I call "burden of proof".

Which is trivially easy to come by: you just need to look for the people that have absolutely nothing to gain from the violence itself, and furnish only biblical justification for doing so; the parents who beat their children, sometimes to the point of serious injury or death, because that's biblical. The gay people beaten and killed because the bible says this should be so. The so called witches that have been burned.

And that's even ignoring the fact that saying religion is merely an excuse already violent people use doesn't absolve religion of responsibility, because it has direct orders that could be used to cover that violence in it in the first place!

I'm not shortsighted enough to say that all violence is based on religion, hell, I doubt that most of it is. But some of it is, and I don't know about anyone else, but when I weigh even one life against the unjustified and undemonstrated promises of an ancient book, I know where those scales are gonna tip.