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It isn't hard to figure out religion has often been used as a cover for other agendas. Moreover, exploiting the fear of being wrong has led to so much brutality and misery. Just as fanaticism's insecurity has led to wars against others if they refuse to see "the way" so have anti-theists resorted to similar tactics for those that don't see their way.
Regardless, at its core, these actions aren't uniquely tied to spirituality and arise more from the elements that spirituality seeks to combat--self-absorption, lack of empathy and compassion, and the evil that results from these.
We are in a postmodernist age and one truth that we all can agree on is that there's many layers to "truth". It is just a function of man's lack of imagination that the triump of whoever's "truth" ultimately relies on violence. Sadly, when that happens, truth dies.
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