> Were those genocides really motivated by of a lack of religion or other factors like racism and authoritarianism? You misunderstand what I said. I was refuti

> Were those genocides really motivated by of a lack of religion or other factors like racism and authoritarianism? You misunderstand what I said. I was refuting the idea that religion caused genocides, rather than claiming lack of religion caused genocides. I think religion per se is too generic and varied to correlate with anything. Sometimes the lack of a particular religion or variant of a particular religion may either cause or oppose genocide - there is a reason, for example, that the Nazis wanted to replace Christianity with new religions, (Positive Christianity and new-paganism - both very different from the originals they drew on/pretended to be), consistent with their ideology.