Watching the Israel/Palestine situation escalate, it occurs to me that there are people who will say religion is the problem.  If not for religion, we could all just get along.

Shouting, Fights, and Dancing at Pro-Israel Protest in Times Square

The people who say religion is the problem are people who are afraid of or opposed to the idea that sin is real, and that religion is one of the side-effects of our sinful condition.  Perhaps our sin nature will rear its ugly head, regardless of whether or not we subscribe to any particular religion.  Perhaps we will never be able to get along, even if we're ostensibly "united" under the banner of destroying the system of individual freedom in the United States:

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Perhaps this is why a system of individual rights and liberty is so important:  To protect the few, the one, against the will of the many.  Who's to say the will of the many won't be lit up by the fires of hell at some point?  Or always?  Do you think abolishing religion, or engaging in some form of self-absorbed "enlightenment," a paradoxical turning inward toward the self that supposedly negates the ego, will somehow eradicate the reality of the sin nature?

"A fool hath no delight in understanding,
but that his heart may discover itself." 
Proverbs 18:2

Do you think that by not believing in the existence of sin, that sin will somehow magically cease to exist?

If you can see that religion is "the problem," then you surely have the ability to see the reason behind the problem.  But only if you are open to the possibility.  Sin, y'know, doesn't generally want to be found out.  It is the true missing link between us and the animals.  No one ever accused a shark or grizzly bear of murder.  Murder requires intent.  We are more than merely nature.  The fires of hell are burning in our bloodstream.  Whether we like it, believe it, intend it, or not.

"The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
Jeremiah 17:9