Regarding technology vs warfare, your chances of dying to violence are at an all time low in human history right now. Had we lived during WW2, it would be at a historical low then, too.
Minus mechanized killing, a higher % of people actually got killed than after said inventions.
I tend to like the religion idea getting bumped off, instead. Any technological innovation seems bound to happen, and it's hard to remove one, without being forced to follow the dominoes and dump other technology that is closely related. Religion, OTOH, has no real use in the modern world. Being rid of it would remove a crutch for many people, but they could replace it with some other, arbitrary crutch.
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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine
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