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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

ireland for one place

all priests claim to speak to god via praying in churches

Praying in a church is not claiming to literally have a conversation with God.
If you think "praying" is literally "talking to God" then you are silly. Plenty people pray, not just priests. It can be a form of meditation.

Even if that was true, how does it represent all religious people?
Is this generalisation still not getting through to you?

And one point. Getting rid of religion will stop people like the madman in the supermarket how exactly?

If someone is criminally insane and is going to kill someone, they'll do it regardless of if there's a church down the road or not.

They'll just find another excuse to make themselves feel better about their evil act.