No, but sharply reduce a major factor around the globe. Maybe it's not the intrinsic beliefs that need to be removed but the proselytization of your "faith"?

...this thread is an example of proselytization for your own religious beliefs and worldview, is it not?

not because of their religion, but because of the greed of the conquerors. And that included Spanish, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, German, French, English, Australian, and American.

Virtually everyone you list used the excuse of "saving" the heathens and bringing them to a better spiritual place.
More crimes committed in the name of religion.

Religion has always been used to accumulate power and riches. Scaring people with a painful eternity has a great brain-washing effect as we have seen throughout history.

This planet suffers so much from people being led and told how to live by people that talk to and worship invisible people (entities?)

It is unreal.

A jury convicted a Florida man of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2018 strangling and beating death of his wife after she refused to appear on a home renovation reality TV show ...

“Tronnes had spent thousands of dollars on renovations and had hopes of appearing on the reality television show, ‘Zombie House Renovations.’ This led to the couple experiencing problems in their marriage,” prosecutors said. “Cooper-Tronnes’ refusal to appear on the show upset Tronnes to the point that it led to her murder” ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-found-guilty-murdering-wife-refused-go-home-renovation-tv-rcna121290

And Cambodia and of all those beat to death with a little red book…

No god needed.

As a child I read the following and never forgot it.
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon."

- George Aiken
We humans are hardwired to fear the other. It can be overcome, but it's always lying under the skin.


I don't ever feel that way now, but twice in my late teens and in my early twenties I was perfectly capable of murdering someone.

Maybe I'm older and wiser or just too tired to get into a murderous passion. I hope it's the former.

So I’m thinking no.

Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot come to mind.

Remove religion and people will just come up with other excuses.

It also doesn't help to scapegoat religious people who do not participate in or endorse violence.

As Is Communist China. As expansionistic and domineering as one could imagine.

Behind religious wars are self-righteousness and greed. as well as the need to control.

These are our basic and dangerous human emotions.