@ EndofMysteries,
"500/1000 years ago when much of the world was warring tribes religion is what brought peace."
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
Come now, are we living on the same planet?
Over 1500 years ago - it's referred to as the Dark Ages - Europe was a barbaric feudalistic region with constant warfare amongst them. Throughout that time period we had the holy wars of Constantine; the inquisitions with its victims often times burned at the stake; the Catholic Protestant wars; the Taiping civil war in China and so forth.
In the United States you had the puritans hanging women simply because they belonged to another religion.
It was when Europe became secularized that we had advancement in civilization.
Look at the fruit of Christendom's reigned of terror: