[I would have hoped that recent world events would have shown you that religous believes
have killed enslaved ripped apart more communities families than it can ever create.

***Check your history. The greatest mass murderers in history were all atheists. Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot, etc...

Yes, religious fruit-cakes have killed many, but as mentioned below - sincere believers [who are much different from religous fruit-cakes] have also done much good in the world (food, literacy, hospitals, etc). So, it is unwise to throw the baby out with the bath water.