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Religions provide valuable information on how the coexistence of people in the respective culture can proceed without conflict, as is the case with the 10 Commandments, for example. Furthermore, they serve to ensure the survival of the religious group. However, they’re also subject to a certain evolution. Might makes right here, too.

When it comes to the abuse of religious views, the arrogance of people who believe in God over non-believers or people of other faiths is currently in the spotlight. This attitude is pronounced among fanatical believers. This leads to their alleged right to subjugate and physically destroy unbelievers and people of other faiths. All you need to do is recall the persecution of Christians in Africa by Muslim extremist groups, the expulsion of Muslim minorities by the Buddhist Burmese, the constant clashes between Buddhists, Hindus in India, and Islamists and Hindus in Pakistan. Last but not least, there’s the perpetual conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, which always claims a large number of lives – all in the name of Allah.

Individual groups of non-believers (atheists) are not sparing in their arrogant remarks about believers who don’t regard the life of man as limited to any earthly existence. Atheist-oriented leaders have proven to be hostile to religion. For example, Stalin persecuted Christians, and Christians had to endure substantial disadvantages in East Germany.

However, it’s particularly reprehensible to persuade people with promises of paradise to drag other people to their deaths as living weapons for the sake of faith.

Armed conflicts between the different Christian communities and the crusades against Islam in ancient Palestine are a thing of the past. Yet they’re threatening to erupt again in the Irish conflict in the course of the Brexit.

But the focus should be on the discussions between the spiritual leaders of the various religious communities and atheist groups in order to counteract the abuse of religious views and to promote interpersonal tolerance.