no book of religion pushes people to grab a knife or a gun to harm others; crazy leaders do and unstable and uneducated people follow.<p>yet, even if we discard that previous point : forbidding religions would be exactly the same as creating one and pointing &quot;believers&quot; as enemies of &quot;non believers&quot; ... triggering more of what you try to stop<p>general education and broad tolerance between cultures (either religious or not) is quite probably the only way to move towards non violence and peace ...