Can't speak for all religions but Scriptures declare that the Light come into the world but men loved darkness lest their evil deeds be exposed. So where there is a clash between light and darkness division occurs. Strange however in our secular society the most violent and nasty are those who claim to be atheist or worship 'mother earth'. Shows all hearts are sinful as the bible declares. Thank God for the opportunity to be saved through His Son.

As we came out of Africa, and into the caves, we invented God, we know of about four thousand men invented
Each was our light in the dark and made promises we would be protected even reborn
And as the tribe next door wanted our food and women God told us it was ok to kill
Even prompted that
Not unlike witch doctors those serving God, every one of them,served themselves first
so yes religion is divisive it devids us
Just ask Israel, he tells us God burnt 476 homes and murdered five people just to let us know he is unhappy

Paul,

What survey?

I can't find any reference to a survey that makes the claims you are making.

To my mind, there's only two reasons someone wouldn't post the link:

1. The survey doesn't say what is claimed or says other things that you want hidden.

2. The survey is mirage.

Dear Runner,

«Can't speak for all religions but Scriptures declare that the Light come into the world but men loved darkness lest their evil deeds be exposed.»

I can ascertain that Hinduism too embraces this idea.

In this world there is no absolute darkness, nor absolute light: whatever exists, is there by God's light, faint as it might be, then it is our spiritual journey to move from relative darkness into ever-increasing light.

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Dear Belly,

«As we came out of Africa, and into the caves, we invented God, we know of about four thousand men invented»

What man invented, are different ideas ABOUT God, not God Him/Herself.
(else how possibly, or logically, could man invent that which would then create him...?)

God is God, unfathomable, infinite, unborn, unending, unchangeable, unlimited and beyond description. Our relative ideas of God could be true or false or any mixture of the two, good or bad or any mixture of the two, but they cannot affect in any way the Absolute Reality of God Him/Herself.

«Not unlike witch doctors those serving God, every one of them,served themselves first so yes religion is divisive it devids us»

But how can you tell that they (who were like witch doctors) were serving God? Just because they said so? Do you believe them? Now you write it yourself: these people served themselves first, thus they were NOT serving God, so what you write in effect is: "those serving God are not serving God...". The people you are speaking about are/were not religious to begin with, thus it is/was not religion that divides us!

Dear Paul,

You ask - "Why is Religion So Divisive?"

It could be because there are a large number
of religions, many of whose members are
convinced that theirs is the one true faith
and that all others are misguided, superstitious,
even wicked.

There is also a relationship between societies
and religion. Religions reflect the cultural
concerns of the societies in which they arise.
War-prone societies tend to have gods of war;
agricultural societies, gods of fertility.
Societies that accord much greater power and prestige
to men likewise tend to have male gods and religions
dominated by male officials. It is therefore not
surprising that priests, rabbis, and other clergy have
been exclusively male in the past, of that this
situation is gradually changing as gender roles become
more flexible in other areas of society.

Another example of division is that most Western Christians
being white tend to think of both God and Jesus as white.

The idea of a black God is almost unimaginable to them, and
portraits of Jesus frequently present him as a blond Caucasian
rather than as the person of Semitic features he no doubt was.

In many African churches on the other hand statues and
portraits of Jesus show him with dark, Negroid features.

Belly, Foxy et al,

Believe what you like but I know, positively, that in my belief in God and a life after death I shall never feel disappointment.