How can one blame religion for all the violence in the world? What about all the religious people that are in no way violent and are actually filled with more love for their fellow men than the non-religious?

Isn't it true that men given to violence will remain violent come what may and vice-versa?

Isn't it true that religion just happens to be a pretext for violent men to further their sadistic ends?

When I say science has done harm to humanity by making destructive weapons, you say it is not science or the scientist but the people that use these weapons for destruction that are to be condemned.

Doesn't the same argument hold good when it comes to religion too? Aren't the people that use the pretext of religion for destruction to be blamed rather than religion itself?