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And yet many religious people use religion as a way to try to be better people.

Exactly my opinion. To emphasize bad verses of the bible doesn't make the coran better.
Wars happen mostly about oil and religion. Religions can be abused - the best example is IS.
All priests please get away from me. Every religion is potential dangerous to all others who don't believe.
Therefore no upvote for this post of @larkenrose.

I'm not sure why you think any of that disagreed with what I said.

Perhaps because you made this not clear enough. The main statement should be at the beginning. If I misunderstood you, pardon me. I'm not a native english speaker.
I fear the raising of the Islam in Europe. OK, peace, you got my upvote.