we can conclude that humans will use any tool available to harness power and dominance.

That the old maxim holds true
It is easy for good people to do good
It is not difficult for evil people to do evil
But to get good people to do evil, that takes religion

Almost to a person, the believers I've been in contact with have little to NO knowledge of the history of their religions, or their "holy" books.
Most christians have no idea about the history of their bible. None.
Many of them don't even realize that the main character in their book was jewish.

Religion is just one tool used for control.

Religion poisons everything. Their god isn’t much better!!

I am an atheist. But it is a person's character that make him do evil. Religion may have influence. We cannot ignore the contributions religion has done to humanity. The Christian missionaries have played an important role in modernising education in India. The teacher who encouraged me the most was a nun. She was aware of my beliefs and told me to make decisions myself. There are theists who create problems and terror. There are atheists as well who do the same. It is not a fight between atheists and theists, but a fight between the kind and greedy.

Of course the theists will point to Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao as atheists who killed millions. They may not have been religious but they were still following a perverted ideology which is really the same thing.

I think you mean to say the influence of belief in god or gods. I had a woman tell me all the great things religion has done for human civilization and my rebuttal was it is miraculous that humanity has survived the scourge of religion. The only great contribution of religion, in my opinion, is cathedral architecture.

Abrahamic religions like Christianity and Islam have always had the urging necessity of imposing their belief on other people by any means, mainly war but also by force and torture. The Crusades also had secondary purposes other than religion, like dominance, pillage and power. Western powers have colonized, invaded and interfered in Arab or Islamic countries in the past century and even this century, creating terrorism as an only way to strike back for a lesser power. Religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Shinto are personal and they don't do proselytizing. Judaism doesn't do it either because they are the chosen ones and there will be room in heaven for only 12,000 people of each of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Atheism/agnosticism is inherently humanistic and appeals to people who choose to think.

My conclusion is that your god likes the same things that you do. This is about as bad as someone believing that their god is the right god. Yes, let us create god in our own image.

How does anyone justify having an imaginary friend and believing that that same imaginary body controls everything he does on earth? That alone is insanity in all ramifications and that explains why believers will do anything to prove their insanity, as to me that's what they are proving. Insanity is what will drive a Muslim extremist to kill hundreds and shout allahu akbar believing one imaginary god is happy with that singular act...

What I conclude is that theism is evil. Atheism is good.

God is going to be the death of US.

As it is with the saying that Guns do NOT kill people, people with Guns kill other people so it is with religions, except for mythological Abrahamic God, God/s do not kill people, people kill other people in the name of the God/s and religions.
Hence, as we've seen in history ever so many times, God is both the Escape Clause for the Losers and the Celebratory Excuse for the Winners, i.e. IF one side wins outright then it was because God willed it so, the Loser has an escape clause, or so they think, because they can simply believe that God was NOT impressed enough with their efforts and withdrew his support from them.
The Christian God/Jesus has always been the Rallying Cry for warfare, genocide, etc, etc, just Allah is the Rallying Cry for the Muslim Radicals, etc,etc.

Religion, one vast Sleeper Cell

I wouldn't go so far as to say that atheists have a bloodless path but I would agree that having an imaginary friend that is in agreement with everything you want to do will make it easier to justify any sort of atrocity that the human mind can come up with. An Atheist is quite as capable of inhuman acts as much as a Theist but I think they have to own up for their actions, more so than a believer ever will.

We atheist are definitely not clean when it comes to violence against others. Just look at Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and others like them who killed millions. There are people on this very website who show a lot of hatred against religious people just like the religious show hatred against us atheist.

Racism's foundation is absolutely based on religion. Religion claimed that black people had no soul when they found entire continents of people of colored and no sign of their fabricated god or religion. How could an all knowing god not know of these people? Easy answer - they don't have souls so god ignored them as he did the rest of the animals. This is how todays version of racism started folks and then everybody forgot how it started but kept the mindset and the fake religion.

Add this one: Pope Nicholas V “Doctrine of Discovery” (1492) that sanctioned to “invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever” and to “reduce their persons to perpetual slavery” and “convert them to his and their use and profit.”

This is the doctrine upon which Columbus and later Europeans justified the genocide of the indigenous people in North, “Latin”, and South America.

The Doctrine of Discovery was later cited in U.S. Supreme Court rulings that stripped land from Natives, even as late as 1954.

This info is beautifully explained by Mark Charles in this 17-minute TED talk, wherein he rightly characterized the U.S. Constitution as a white supremacist document.

What better way to get people to do what you want than to say god is on your side.

"What can we conclude from these facts on the influence of God throughout history?"

Clearly NOTHING! One might as well ask the rhetorical question, "What can we conclude from the facts on the influence of garden fairies throughout history?"

It was "“Gott Mit Uns” not "Gott mit uss".

Interesting that the Jewish religion forbids even the mention of God. As a child I wondered why. As I emerged in this mish mash I understood.

Religion and all it's accompanying and varied made-up gods, are the ultimate scapegoats !