I think it's fair to say that one of the most common routes to violence in our world is when one set of religious literalists come up against another. History is littered with examples of mass-slaughter when one set of unfalsifiable beliefs are pitted against an incompatible set, often it's not the content of the beliefs that are the problem it's their very nature, i.e. they cannot be shown to be true and therefore the only way to resolve the dispute is through violence. There are many reasons why we kill each other, differences in beliefs is a big one as are greed over resources and land and quests for power, sometimes the reasons are just stupid, like chariot races or flags, I guess natural selection works in mysterious ways.
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