You can "blame" religion for a lot of things, but the real blame is on people. It takes people to do anything and all religious doctrine of any kind is fully pagan. Christianity abandoned its roots over time and abandonded the Bible's teachings completely by about 300-400AD adopting pagan customs and beliefs in an attempt to 'be all things to all men'.
Every single mainstream doctrine of Christendom directly contradicts the Bible.
But as I say, it takes people to do evil things and man does not need religion to work evil to his neighbour, many just like to use it as justification. In war, each side claims the divine support of their gods, which is ludicrous when you think about it. If "God" were on one side that side would be inevitably victorious. Stupid thing about WW2 for example was that Christian religions on both sides, each supposedly worshipping the same God and using the same Bible, claimed He was on their side, so you had "Brother against Brother" from the same church with the blessing of the clergy.
And the churches wonder why their support is drying up...
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