The U.S. has never needed religious reasons for murdering indigenous people and killing people in other countries. So I kind of suspect it’s not necessarily religion that promotes mass murder and I don’t think anyone in the U.S. has the moral high ground here.¹

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It’s also clear that you needn’t be religious to be dogmatic and self-righteous and judgemental and to propagate hate that leads to violence.²