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Yeah... 'greater.' Whatever. Religion doesn't have anything on secular systems such as Stalinist USSR, Mao's China or Hitler's Germany. People do terrible things, period. Sometimes it gets dressed up in religion, sometimes ideology, and sometimes tribe/government. But I know... we have to dismiss them for one reason or another so we can keep pretending that religion is the biggest boogeyman and it's not that people are just rat bastards and that when people get together they become even bigger rat bastards.
The 'other' gets created all the time. Good religion, good ideologies, and good politics try to reduce this sensibility. As long as we can see our enemies as 'other' it is a lot easier to dismiss them and kill them.
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