Is religion the main source of conflict in the world?

[MineralMan]

48. So many things are at odds with his faith.

Of course, I have no idea what his faith is, actually, and he won't tell.

After a long series of conversations many years ago with a Catholic Bishop's assistant who was a rising young cleric in California, he finally told me that he didn't really believe that there was an actual deity, but that the principles of his religion were what kept him in the church. It was the "faith" that was important, he claimed, not any sort of real supernatural concept. I remember wondering just how many people who are Christian leaders of one sort or another are sort of in the same situation. I've met a couple of other atheists who were active clergy members, but I'd think making such a revelation would be a rare thing.

I think maybe Guy is somewhere on that same spectrum of belief. It's a difficult thing to maintain, I'd think.