But from my example of southern Africa, what we need to be doing is to recognise that there is more that unites us than divides us. The most difficult challenge for any believer is to coordinate his beliefs with his behaviour. Now, religious people are not infallible. But because they preach good things, others expect too much of them. It is not only religion that is a reason for conflict.
Race can be a reason.
Marx was not a religious man, but you had wars between ideologies. Pol Pot was not a religious man. I understand why some politicians and intellectuals criticise religion, demanding religion be judged not by what adherents say, but by what they do. Religion is sometimes the reason why people do not look upon one another in good faith. But the shortcomings are not within the religion itself.