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"a few" is an understatement - the number of people, priests, minister, bishops and other leaders who have tortured, murdered, waged war and everything else "in the name of God" leaves a path of destruction that goes on throughout history - quite the body count.
Pretend that there was no such thing as religion. Do you actually think that none of those things would have happened?
The fact that wars and atrocities were committed in the name of religion doesn't mean that they would never have happened in the absence of religion.
Oddly - almost every single God and Goddess is directly responsible for mass deaths (like the Flood in Genesis) at the same time.
Wait - are you saying that you believe that a supernatural being actually killed all those people via things like floods?
If so, then it would seem pretty foolish to be saying religion is useless.
If not, then it obviously wasn't the fault of a religion that those people died.