Oh, definitely a tongue in cheek comment ... perhaps it's like trying to control mercury ...
Maximise for crusades, jihads or traumatized alter boys ... or maximise for complete moral decay via lying, cheating and stealing. Choose your poison.
And don't get me wrong. There are some wonderful relgious and spiritual characters out there ... they're just drowned out by the power sirens and corrupt leaders.
Religion is a human endeavor there will be no perfection of outcome.
To peg my response on something in order to make it coherent. "maximize crusades, jihads or traumatized alter boys"
How many wars have there been with & without religion as a defining cause? How many crusades (let's define as an invasion + genocide). How many molested?
The answer is on the whole less war, less crusade, less molestation due to religion, adjusted for contribution. Alongside many many many benefits due directly and singularly to religion without any other cause.
Religion is a net positive and to suggest otherwise shows inability to view the subject objectively.
Christians also invented pray the gay away and the Crusades. What’s your point? Hospitals surely would have been invented by secular people too, but not the crusades.
> Hospitals surely would have been invented by secular people too, but not the crusades.
That's not true. Secular people are quite capable of murdering each other en masse for ideological reasons, and indeed have done so in the past. The crusades were caused by human nature and its evils, not by religion.
