Religious fanatics killing each other only serves to make the atheists happy.
Confused?
Let me explain:
#1. Religious fanatics killing each other means there are less religious fanatics going around, spreading their fanaticism.
#2. Normal people see the idiocy of the situation and become disenfranchised with god and decide to become atheists.
Together these two factors only serve to swell the numbers of atheists. In recent years the number of people who identify themselves as "no religion" has risen to 16% world wide, surpassing Hinduism in popularity.
If religious wackos want to keep killing each other, serving as negative role models for the religious, it will only serve to boost the atheist and non-religious numbers.
Conclusions
If people adopted religious tolerance and pacifism, this wouldn't be a problem. We could all live peacefully and respect one another's beliefs.
However since mankind's resources (oil, water and food) are also at stake people are going to continue to use religion as both an excuse and as a weapon of war. Thus this guarantees that people will continue to have wars, and continue to use religion in such a foul way. This will doubtlessly continue to swell the numbers of atheists and non-religious people globally as religious people kill each other off and serve as negative role models for new generations.
So while I will continue to preach pacifism (and agnosticism: the belief that we don't really know if there is/isn't a god, the nature of that god, or even whether he cares about us) the atheist numbers will continue to grow until eventually atheism surpasses Islam (27%) and Christianity (33%). I would like to be hopeful that it would also swell the numbers of agnostics who are more willing to say "Meh, there might be a god, but even if there is, god certainly doesn't care about us anyway."
Food for thought for both the religious, the atheist and the agnostic... and also the war-monkeys and the pacifists.
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