There has been a long standing debate as to whether or not religion causes violence. A popular argument is that due to the secular nature of the many belief systems out there, even the highly positive ones, religions will always create a polarity between people. Religion, however, is a mental mechanical construct with the purpose of explaining the realm of the nonphysical. It has no function of its own. Whether you believe in a higher spirit or not is irrelevant to this fact. The point is that saying religion causes violence is like saying a gun pulls its own trigger.

The design of the human mind is to categorize, configure and separate. By nature we are pack animals because of this fact. Thus, violence is a function of the human mind, not what it constructs. The way to cure the chaos is to balance the mind, not remove specific thoughts. After all, it is not the thought that is the problem it is our reaction to it.