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Originally Posted by Mattman
It's always tricky commenting on a religious discussion on these forums because people generally comment their own strong view and tend to disrespect other's .... but here goes.
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Whether the atheist are right or not about the existence of a higher being(s) it may be better to get rid of religions altogether and take away one reason for us to hate each-other.
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two things:
1) it's not tricky at all when you put forward a very popular opinion like ridding religion from our cultures.
b) humans are gross. any attempt to squash one reason for us to kill each other off will become a reason to do just that. we're genetically built to compete. and, it would be a fruitless effort. it will either die out on its own or it won't. having faith is like someone's ability to reproduce: ethically, you can't and don't get to stop them. the methods to pull something like that off against its natural decline and on a large scale are all undignified and impossible. sorry.