Thomas Borchert wrote:

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?

I was unaware that a very significant portion of Africa's population were
following all of the pope's advocations.
By following your position, we could also argue that being anti-religious
is a religion in its own right.
Furthermore, I inquired about an objective score for positives as well.
Are they just to be dismissed with one brush since there were conflicts in
medival Europe, etc.? Frankly, you could make a better case for the
slightly less ludicroous position that Europe is responsible for creating
and exporting the world's problems all over the globe over the past 600+
years or so.