I believe that religion is to blame when such ridiculous acts of crime are committed because it's the conviction of the belief system that provokes such things even though there isn't a specific rule in a religion that tells people to commit such acts it certainly does provoke. Religious people just don't want religion to be attacked or debunked as usually, revealing it for the unnecessary need for religion in the world. Showing how heinous religion can provoke people to be would prove how it's not always the peaceful group of ideas that people claim it to be.

Sure religion may provoke certain people to commit acts of kindness as well but religion isn't needed for that. The religious just don't feel comfortable that they're getting a bad reputation and try to move around it as they usually do when religion gets attacked in any way. It's stupid because occasionally I see comments from religious people claiming how it wouldn't work out if the world functioned through a completely nonreligious approach where there is no such thing as religion any more. They tend to point out Stalin and how that worked out in Russia and place their reference just on that as if that's the only possible outcome of how everything would be like everywhere if there was no religion in the world.

There are various moments in history and even in the present as to how religion has been the cause of skrewing people over real bad based on the ideologies that they have. I've seen comments of how supposedly messed up people or the world would be in a world dominated by Atheists of how "they wouldn't like to see people getting refused medical attention because of being religious forcing them to take on the hyposesis of how their God with help them". If they seriously want to use those examples and base it on that I remember learning in school at some point in a history class or something where we learned that there was a time back where the church (specifically the Christian church I believe) in some area of Europe controlled everything from schools to medical centers up to the government and if you were someone who was seen as unfit to the church or committed some "serious sin" of some kind that they would banish you from the church but you wouldn't just be accepted back into church but also wouldn't be allowed to use their education system, medical centers and everything so you would pretty much be skrewed and practically sentenced to death in a way because there would be no way to survive on your own.

There are various other examples in history where religion is to blame for such unjust acts and decisions because of ignorant stubborn views that happen to be the dominant power at the time or place. Now that we don't have religion running everything anymore and overtime things have gotten a bit less fanatic than those times we now have a safer, fairer world in comparison to the past and it's precisely because there's less of a religious presence at least in how extreme those views can go and would be allowed to go. Things ARE getting better because there is slowly starting to be more casual believers than strong ones over time. I seriously doubt that in a world dominated by the lack of religion there would be extremes that some people claim where THEY won't be accepted medical attention for being religious.

What I can acknowledge is that it is possible that they may have some level of persecution from some people for being religious but that's not something that we can entirely control and would also not be unfamiliar of a issue because problems like these exist in other topics where people get persecuted for being the minority. We currently get persecuted from time to time for being the minority as well and can totally imagine how religious people would make a big deal on how unjust or not ideal having atheism would be just because they finally start to be the ones who get persecuted from time to time just like we have for centuries except that we've had it worse.

- Cesar Valencia