There's some truth to that. But I also think people tend to be more violent when they're brought up in system of beliefs that promotes fear, xenophobia, and sexual repression as virtues...not to mention a general rejection of rational thought.

It's pretty obvious, for example, why so many "celibate" clergyman tend get-off by assaulting children. All that self-loathing and sexual denial isn't just incompetent, but unhealthy. Sex is a natural stress reliever as evidenced by the endorphins our brains spit out when we're getting-it-on (or fapping, as the case may be).

All those hormones, pheromones, and emotions like love and lust are nothing, if not evolutionary mechanisms that promote the health and proliferation of ourselves, our societies, and our species.

Consider the victims of the clergy's worldwide assault on children and how the trauma and stress they experienced will alter the their ability to maintain normal, healthy sexual relationships for the rest of their fertile lives. Religion isn't just a lame lifestyle choice. It's an evolutionary pathogen, hellbent on suppressing social and scientific progress.

"wut about teh STDs", they will say. Bullshit! Through the "miracles" of science and math, we have developed technology to greatly reduce the risks involved with the frequent sexual release we all crave. From vaccines and free, anonymous, mail-in STD screenings to HD porn and dishwasher-safe butt-plugs, we have it all. And yet the religious shun science, the one thing that actually has a chance to save their stupid asses. They openly mock our most well-supported ideas about man, nature, and the universe. They question fossils, for fuck's sake. And by the way, they also represent more than their fair share of us in both political parties and wield tremendous influence over the private and public sector alike.

Maybe they're right about one thing: maybe we all should feel afraid. But as it turns out, they're the ones posing the biggest threat to our survival.