Seriously?!?
Scientists have created LITERALLY ALL EXPLOSIVES from gun powder to TNT to Nuclear bombs.
Additionally.., biological and chemical weapons are the product of scientific invention.

Certainly, Religion [like Nationalism and the thirst for land and power] has been an element in justifying war but.., a Bible or the Koran are BOOKS containing IDEAS.
In the end.., it's the "sticks and stones".., not the "words" that accomplish the task of "hurting".

Possibly, like too many, you are unaware of how few wars have been caused as a result of religion. In the recently published book, “Encyclopedia of Wars,” authors Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod document the history of recorded warfare, and from their list of 1763 wars only 123 have been classified to involve a religious cause, accounting for less than 7 percent of all wars and less than 2 percent of all people killed in warfare. While, for example, it is estimated that approximately one to three million people were tragically killed in the Crusades, and perhaps 3,000 in the Inquisition, nearly 35 million soldiers and civilians died in the senseless, and secular, slaughter of World War 1 alone.

I've found that those who jump to blaming religion for warfare or dismissing how scientific advances have contributed FAR MORE to the human carnage are WHOLLY OBTUSE.

Hell..., if climate change produces 10% the death which some predict.., it will be the product of SCIENTIFIC development [see internal combustion engine, et al].

I suggest you rethink your anti-faith perspective. Like science, faith produces benefits as well as liabilities.

Scientific advances have contributed to mankind's ability to murder one another... Science has started no wars...

Religion has played a large part in numerous conflicts.... It's been a deciding factor in far more than just the Crusades... (thd inquisition was not a war).... I notice you jumped over the myriad religious influences of the Second World War... Christianity, Jusiasm, Marxism (athiesm), and Shinto were all huge factors in that conflict...

I never blamed religion for warfare... I stayed that religion has caused more wars than science...

You are conflating cause and means...

Anti-faith? I am a practicing Christian... An for the record, faith and science aren't at odds...

Seriously?!?
Scientists have created LITERALLY ALL EXPLOSIVES from gun powder to TNT to Nuclear bombs.
Additionally.., biological and chemical weapons are the product of scientific invention.

Certainly, Religion [like Nationalism and the thirst for land and power] has been an element in justifying war but.., a Bible or the Koran are BOOKS containing IDEAS.
In the end.., it's the "sticks and stones".., not the "words" that accomplish the task of "hurting".

Possibly, like too many, you are unaware of how few wars have been caused as a result of religion. In the recently published book, “Encyclopedia of Wars,” authors Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod document the history of recorded warfare, and from their list of 1763 wars only 123 have been classified to involve a religious cause, accounting for less than 7 percent of all wars and less than 2 percent of all people killed in warfare. While, for example, it is estimated that approximately one to three million people were tragically killed in the Crusades, and perhaps 3,000 in the Inquisition, nearly 35 million soldiers and civilians died in the senseless, and secular, slaughter of World War 1 alone.

I've found that those who jump to blaming religion for warfare or dismissing how scientific advances have contributed FAR MORE to the human carnage are WHOLLY OBTUSE.

Hell..., if climate change produces 10% the death which some predict.., it will be the product of SCIENTIFIC development [see internal combustion engine, et al].

I suggest you rethink your anti-faith perspective. Like science, faith produces benefits as well as liabilities.

FINALLY.., your assertion that banning "public prayer" is not banning prayer is RIDICULOUS at base.