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[Sushan]

More or less your argument goes towards the point of believing in no God

No exactly. It goes towards NOT believing in god. A subtle and important difference. The smart thing to do is not beleive. Try to seek out knoweldge, and always keep knowledge contingent on evidence and reason.

(I am a non-believer too), and I have not spoken about the so called biblical chosen people. Yes, if they were the chosen ones God would have rescued them before their sufferings.

Religion is not the only thing that discriminate or harass people, yes, there are abundant natural causes. But when people discriminate other groups of people various religious teachings play or have played in the history very massive roles.

Agreed.

Yes, believers can believe what they prefer and non-believers can look for knowledge and reason. But the issue is the difficulty to go against the privileged majority who use religion upon the less educated and less privileged people to control them and further deprive them of their rights and comforts. I think if a God was truly there this couhave been easily stopped. This process continues because it is done by a group of greedy men who want to keep all the riches to themselves, and know that the best way to do that is disrupting any attempts on social equality.

Greed is only one aspect. There seems to be an urge to expunge difference. You've only to examine tha hatred and spit meted out to people that are a "bit different"; homsexuals, trans, non binary; differnt colour, ethnicity; fat people; thin people. When I was a kid having long hair meant you were a girl, and scorn would follow any boy with the guts to let their hair grow to Beetle length.
Catholics persecute Protestants who persecute Jews who persecute Palestinians ad infinitem

I think you are correct. Many people cannot accept differences. And when such a group get together they try to become superior and supress the different ones who are in less numbers. And this one is turned upside down when such a superior one is happened to be in a neighborhood of previously suppressed ones. And 'revenge' too plays a role in that. When you are troubled by such a group, you and your peers who fave the same issue grow a determination to 'give a return'. So this cycle goes on.