Would the World Be Safer Without Religion?  Faith makes people
want to kill each other--but it's the best thing we've got.  BY:
Gregg Easterbrook   Israelis and Palestinians are killing each
other by the hundreds in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Hindus
and Muslims are slaughtering each other in India, herding
neighbors into house or trains then setting them afire.
Catholics and Protestants continue to kill each other in
Northern Ireland. Sunnis and Shias have their arms wrapped
around each other's throats throughout the Islamic world. And of
course, on Sept. 11, 19 Muslims were so determined to murder
helpless Christians and Jews that they were willing to die to
shed the blood of other religions.  Not a terribly good
reflection on faith, is it? If religion makes people want to
murder each other, maybe religion is bad for the world.
Religion has certainly been bad for history. In recent decades
alone, Hindus and Sikhs have been slaughtering each other,
blowing up airliners and firing artillery shells into