According to Bruce Lincoln's book Holy Terrors
a. almost every religious tradition holds a belief in some form of hell.
b. children have an innate capacity for belief in divine beings that diminishes as they grow older.
c. religion has the potential to facilitate and even to escalate violence.
d. religions that teach the existence of demons also acknowledge the existence of ghosts.
Answer: c. religion has the potential to facilitate and even to escalate violence.
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