Would the world be a much better place without religion

I accept. I want to define several terms for you below: better (adj.) - more appropriate, advantageous, or well advised. religion (n.) - the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. I will refrain from quoting scripture. I have tried to avoid as many "God Exists" debates as possible. Before I begin let me get this out of the way. I AM NOT AN ATHEIST. I come from a religious family just as you might or anyone else. I go to temples to worship, and pray whenever I can. And, so I will not be using my beliefs as my argument. If I were to take this argument literally, from a moral and economic (notice I did not say spiritual or biblical) point of view, religion has done more harm. Religion has orchestrated some of the biggest wars, notably the Crusades. The following excerpt is from Britannica Encyclopedia: "It is particularly interesting to note that the Council of Clermont, at which Urban II called for the First Crusade (1095), renewed and generalized the Peace of God. It may seem paradoxical that a council both promulgated peace and officially sanctioned war, but the peace movement was designed to protect those in distress, and a strong element of the Crusade was the idea of giving aid to fellow Christians in the East. Tied to this idea was the notion that war to defend Christendom was not only a justifiable undertaking but a holy work and therefore pleasing to God" In other words, the 'Holy Wars' that ensued were a result of salvation. You could have killed several hundred people, committed adultery, or steal, but, by fighting in the Crusades, you were forgiven. Not by God, but by religion. God never gave you his permission to slaughter hundreds of thousands of people. Also, this brings up a very important position: Religion mandates a God, but God does not mandate there be a religion. I mean, who wrote the Bible, your Koran, bhagavad gita? GOD? No, it was us, humans. It was your Moses, your Mohammad, etc. I mean, for God"s sake, what about ISIS? Yemen? (because that place has become a hellhole) I don"t want to discuss religion and foreign policy, but doesn"t it boil down to Sunnis killing Shiites? How many people dead because of them? Now, I know what they"re doing is insane and wrong, but religion is the reason for the problems in the middle east. http://addictivelists.com... Here. That is a list of the biggest religious wars fought. How could you economically, or morally, justify that was good? You have a massive reduction in population, there is basically few people left. Of those remaining, their nominal wages skyrocket. It"s terrible. Slavery. Ah, yes. Let us make a logical argument of the following excerpt: By the reign of Pope Zacharias (741-752), Venice had established a thriving slave trade . . .when the sale of Christians to Muslims was banned (pactum Lotharii [13]), the Venetians began to sell Slavs and other Eastern European non-Christian slaves in greater numbers. Source: Slavery in mideval Europe, Wikipedia "Selling Christians as slaves is banned?? Let"s sell Non-Christians instead!". Slavery is wrong, but PICKING what religious groups to sell? If that is not psychotic and evidence enough that the world would be better without religion, I wouldn"t know what is. More arguments to come.