It's 2012, And People Are Still Being Killed Over Make Believe (Religion) Being Treated As Fact

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61. You shouldn't quote Hitchens' condemnation of religious violence

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Hitchens was an outspoken warmonger who was motivated by religious hatred. He promoted the Iraq War heavily (the world's worst crime this century), and to his dying day he stuck with the WMD BS.

Religion is obvious nonsense, and it can contribute to hatreds that sometimes lead to violence. But the US - arguably the world's leading warmongering nation - is motivated by greed, selfishness, and bigotry. Religious bigots do contribute to this warmongering, but it isn't the leading cause.

Here's Hitchens' talk at the Freedom From Religion Convention in 2007 as described by PZ Myers:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/10/14/ffrf-recap/

He (Hitchens) was asked to consider the possibility that bombing and killing was only going to accomplish an increase in the number of people opposing us. Hitchens accused the questioner of being incredibly stupid (the question was not well-phrased, I’ll agree, but it was clear what he meant), and said that it was obvious that every Moslem you kill means there is one less Moslem to fight you … which is only true if you assume that every Moslem already wants to kill Americans and is armed and willing to do so. I think that what is obvious is that most Moslems are primarily interested in living a life of contentment with their families and their work, and that an America committed to slaughter is a tactic that will only convince more of them to join in opposition to us.

Basically, what Hitchens was proposing is genocide. Or, at least, wholesale execution of the population of the Moslem world until they are sufficiently cowed and frightened and depleted that they are unable to resist us in any way, ever again.