Marissa,

Afterall, I'm sure that banning religion would have
stopped Nazi horrors, right?


Huh?

Nobody has been talking about banning, but if human societies would
have come to the consensus to favor rationalism instead of religion
(one might argue that the Nazi ideology as well as communism were some
kind of quasi-religion - and people have done so at length) and that
would have stopped the Crusades, the genocide of native Americans (both
North and South), the Inquisition, the Pope advocating having as many
children as possible in modern-day Africa, 9/11 and all those other
examples of atrocities in the name of religion, that would have been
plenty, wouldn't it?

If reaching such a consensus is at all possible in humans is a
different and very interesting question.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)