@Hyolobrika @freemo because it incentivized tribalism via values but still fostered a mutual respect of other groups due to unity in a belief that God is real

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To be honest I am not sure christianity has been all that unifying. I cant begin to count the number of wars between different christian denominations, not to mention jews, muslims, and every other religion.

That said I dont think it is any better now that religion is less common. In fact I'd say we are probably just as guilty of this. Humans kill and start wars. If there is religion involved we use that as our excuse, if there isnt, we find a different excuse.

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@freemo @Hyolobrika While people still fight with religion, with post-god identities there are more fights because there are more ideologies. Anybody can make an ideology, but with religion, let's say you have a million Christians and 100 denominations. Most of them are gonna still be cool with each other because at the end of the day they believe in God. Take a million people at random and put them in a city, however, and you will likely have violence at some point. Hundreds of thousands of ideologies and intersectional identities.
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I'm not sure its true that without religion there are more ideologies. If anything there is just one, atheism. So we are talking 100 different denominations vs 1 ideology, atheism.

I can only speculate though, things like this are hard to prove. Wars are certainly less common today than in the past, and religion is less common. But is that just corelation or is that causation is another matter.

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