&gt; Until we can admit that it is religion itself that is the danger, and the irrationality it encourages, this issue will never be solved.<p>This is a fallacy that&#x27;s constantly repeated by atheists. It&#x27;s not true. Lack of religion is just as bad, if not worse (e.g. nazis, communists).<p>The issue is the &quot;us or them&quot;-thinking that all humans are born with. We all want to belong and in trying to achieve that it&#x27;s inherent in us to define our group as different from &quot;that other group&quot;. This is human nature. The problem comes from us going too far to define our group as better than &quot;that other group&quot;, we start to claim they are not human&#x2F;not worthy to live. It quickly goes downhill from there. The dividing factor can be anything: religion, culture, politics, race, sports and so on.