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That is quite a vast time frame. Violence used to much more common in general than it is today. Is there any evidence that religion increased violence above average for a specific time period?

Also, it is often difficult to define what was committed in the name of a religion as there are often multiple sources of conflict. Anything that defines a person in any way can easily be abused by propaganda that seeks to split people into "us" vs "them".



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