Religion and Violence

Religion has started a huge amount of the violence on this planet. This I find contradictory as religion for me is a set of morals, and those morals tell me not to kill other people or engage in violent activity. As far as I know, other religions generally say that violence is not the answer as well. I suppose that a problem could be that people take their religions too literally, and read things into them that aren’t meant to be read into. It could also be that the parts of religions that appeal to our natural human greed create more feeling than the part of religions that offer guidelines and morals. As with followers of Islam who kill people who believe other things than them in order to get into Jannah, and as with Christians who kill people who believe other things than them in order to get into Heaven. Perhaps it is best to first understand the morals that religion tries to present us, and then delve deeper into its traditions if one so chooses. I personally believe that religions exists to encourage people to live better lives in order to create a more perfect and loving world, and think that violence has no place in this world or the next, should there be one.