Not to belabour a point here but there has to be a clear distinction between what God wants and what man does. It's easy to blame religion for the crimes listed but you could also blame greed, politics, racial hatred, and ignorance.
And rightly so none of this helps the victims, but to think that these crimes happened because God wanted them to is a clear misunderstanding of both God and human nature. People with religious beliefs do commit crimes. People with no religious convictions or knowledge of God also do these things and both groups have been doing so since day one. Sadly, that's what we do.
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“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
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