It has nothing to do with religion. People use it as an excuse because they don't want to admit it was in them all along.
Even if all religion ceased to exist, someone would find a convenient excuse to commit those same atrocities. Religion is just the easiest one to get away with.

So?

Lots of people have also suffered at the hands of white men, does that mean we should all get fucking slaughtered and put down and treated like shit for existing?

My point being that it's just doesn't connect. If you took the time to read your book you'd have to use that reaction at least a hundred times before you finish it. While people die due to other reasons, only when it comes to religion does it become justifiable and even acceptable. Jihad, the crusades, and the holocaust(not an act by the jews, but upon them) all death in the name of god, yet nobody cares but the victim and then someone comes along telling you to respect their religion. Death is death, it is not your rite to kill someone.

It has nothing to do with religion. People use it as an excuse because they don't want to admit it was in them all along.
Even if all religion ceased to exist, someone would find a convenient excuse to commit those same atrocities. Religion is just the easiest one to get away with.

anything, a sword and a dog. Why does that sound familiar?