Reddit reviews Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)

Mr. Baldy, religion is a tool which can teach people to do good or ill, and in many cases people feel that the ills outweigh the goods done. For instance, Christianity has in done its share to lead to some awful things such as inquisitions, crusades, and the modern day hate group such as Westboro Baptist Church. And just about every other religion that westerners consider harmless have their violent sects. i would recommend reading the book Terror in the Mind of God

Next. Nobody here 'believes' without a thought in so called darwinism. We accept evolution as true because the evidence points to such. not just shaky evidence, but over a century of research, and it has gotten exponentially stronger evidence in this age of technology; so much even that even the Catholic church officially recognizes the process of evolution as true.

A good reading on this is Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, by M. Juergensmeyer, a great sociological thinker. A little dry, it nevertheless critically examines the constant theme of violence pervading most religions and why it is that religion and violence are inherently intertwined.