[quote=@Penny]Look for examples at the pogroms against Jews by devout Christian's in the middle ages.[/quote]

Not something they taught me much about in sunday school, so forgive me if I'm missing your mark here -- my rudimentary search seems to indicate that this was associated with the Crusades (and other typical jingoist prejudices -- the mass-executions seem to be Crusade related). Holy wars will do that. Religion + Politics is a bad combo -- but it's hardly fair to [i]literally eradicate religion[/i] over that. After all you're certainly not advocating a total eradication of [i]politics.[/i] I haven't done the math, but something tells me you don't wanna stack all the bodies of political wars on one side and all the bodies of religious wars on the other and compare the size of the piles.

[quote]I'm saying that the possibility for the same type violence exists in all religions.[/quote]

The possibility for the same type of violence exists in all people. 

[quote]Admittedly you would have to work pretty hard to create Buddhist suicide bombers.[/quote]

Well you would hope so. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence#Regional_examples]BUUUUUUUUUUUT.........[/url]

EDIT: and, heh, I forgot to mention that the Japanese [i]literally invented[/i] suicide bombing (Kamikaze ring a bell?) So much for that theory.