Tume, that truly disgusted me when people say religion is the reason people don't commit rape and kill people for fun?!?! I was brought up in a religious family and never believed in anything. Yet I'm not a rapest or a murderer :hmm:
Maybe a empathy has something to do with it? Or wait what was that thing called the crusades? I forgot was that about handing out flowers and showing people peace?
My opinion is that the governments do stuff that we don't want to know about to make our lives more peaceful. If they told people about every little world threatening thing the general population would freak out, or maybe carnt handle the truth on something and society would fall apart (bad thing you choose? I like my money grubbing materialist self), I blame it on how stupid the general population is. So don't blame the government blame your peers and stupid people.
For eg lets say aliens landed (or they reveled aliens existed) a lot of religious would either fall apart or say its the end of the exsistance, the omega some shit like that. That would throw the entire world into chaos do you really want that. No. extreme example but you get my point.