It's official -- religious people are nasty, homicidal lunatics.

Via Idealistic Pragmatist, we have a link to a piece by George Monbiot that is almost eerily appropriate given the religiously inspired swill that's been circulating here lately.

I mean, you have to love an article that opens with:

The evidence is clear that murder, venereal disease and marital breakdown are all more common in religious cultures.

And child molestation, George. You forgot child molestation.