The Reason for God by Timothy Keller Ch 1 There can't be just one true religion

Keller makes the point that one of the main barriers to world peace is religion. This is a very valid point, almost too obvious to state. Look all around the world, the Middle East is torn up all over religion. They all want to kill each other and all want Israel gone. Muslims fight believing they should kill all infidels, it just makes for a big fight. There will never be world peace, these religions have been fighting since they were founded. Christians say Christianity is the only way to heaven, most christians won't even listen to an argument about a different religion, even if it is a valid point, they won't accept it, as with people of other religions, not just christians. Since obviously the human race has shown that it is impossible for all of us to agree to disagree about our religions, he suggested 3 things we can do to "solve" this problem, one is to straight up outlaw religion, another is condemn religion, and privatize it.

Many countries have tried to outlaw religion, the Soviets, China, Khmer Rouge (political group in Cambodia) and Nazi Germany. These attempts did not lead to peace or better life, they just lead to more oppression and fighting. So outlawing would not be a possible solution unless eliminating all of that religion, which the Germans tried, which that would take a ton of fighting, oppression, and death.

Another one of the "solutions" presented is to condemn religion. What he means by this is, through education and argument, to discourage religion and try to convince every religion that all other religions are just another way to heaven, resulting in no more divisions in culture, since after all religion is the main division in culture. However this couldn't work either, members of all religions take theirs very seriously, so they would all end up arguing about everything therefore this could not resolve the problem of cultural division. Especially in the middle east.