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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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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