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I am an atheist who believes that people who are religious breed more hate and violence than their non-religious counterparts. CMV.

Most days when I turn on the news I see reports of religiously fueled violence, not just in other countries but in America as well. I feel that the tolerance for people to get along in this world (when you think in terms of religion) is very low. There are many cases of violence in history that can be directly traced to religious roots and I feel that as we advance our own history this mentality is not changing.
This is not an argument saying that people who are religious are violent. Nor is it an argument saying that religion is the cause of hate and violence. I want to question why it is that religious tensions lead to these kinds of actions of hate and violence.
gpt
You are confusing cause and effect. A large portion of the population is suceptable ideologies of closed, unnuanced thinking where good and evil--right and wrong--are clearly defined and thus finding one's purpose is clear. Religious systems, admittedly, are systems which are usually well suited to this sort of ideology, but the religious content is separable from the ideological content. Modern Chinese nationalism is an ideology which sanctions the sometimes violent subjugation millions of people who belong to state identified ethnicities in need of reform, but without a religious context.

One problem which might be causing your view is that religion has and still does play an indelible role in personal and societal identification which makes it easy to see things in religious terms. Also, in much of the west, atheists tend to be 'free-thinkers' who don't seek out large social institutions to give their lives meaning, resulting in a skewed demographic.

Ultimately, there are many frames which can fulfil the requirement of people, but religious views were nearly completely dominant until very recently in history and thus they are overwhelmingly represented when looking at the conflicts caused by the underlying phenomena.