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I kno its unrealistic, but the world might be better off without it. How many wars, battles, etc been started because of religion? 

I am religious, but I wouldn't go killing someone because they worship some other god. Yes, some religions haven't been involved in war. 

I just think it's a crap excuse for a war. Like I'm more then sure their god wouldn't want the deaths of so many people. Well. Mine wouldn't. 

Of course I haven't gone to church since I was 12, but that's beside the point. 
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How many wars, battles, etc have been started because of land, money, pride?

You're advocating for the complete elimination of all religions based on the actions of an extremist part of a single religion.  The problem isn't with the idea of religion, it's with ones that condone violence.

Let's put it this way.  I'm a Christian, and in the bible, it does not advocate the murdering of people in order to facilitate the spread of the religion.  In fact, it discredits the use of violence.  Same goes for the holy writings of most other major religions out there.  Have some Christians used violence and hateful means to do terrible things?  Yes, but if you assume they stand for all of us, you're making a major mistake.  Likewise, Islam itself isn't necessarily bad, but the people who abide by the doctrine of jihad (which means "a holy war undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims") use violence to do terrible things.

It is absolutely a crap excuse for a war.  That's why most religions don't do war.  If you please, name the a time within the past five hundred years that Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, or practitioners of Shinto have made a substantial religious movement to kill nonbelievers rather than enrich culture and thinking.  Neither I nor any Christian I know would kill someone for believing differently; so in your grand plan for the elimination of religion, do we deserve to be expunged/exterminated?

Ludicrous.

Edit: to everyone mentioning the Crusades, yes, thank you for pointing out the one time that Christians fought a holy war, nearly 1000 years ago.  Please keep in mind that the opposing side of the Crusades were the Muslims.  Why did they go to war?  To reclaim the Holy land, yes, because the Holy Land had been conquered by the Muslims and they dealt with the Jews and Christians there in a way somewhat similar to the way modern extremist Muslim groups deal with Jews and Christians.  I'm not trying to claim innocence here, but pointing out the universality of fault.