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A very pessimistic thank you.
The fact that this is a debate at all, in the year of our fantasy, fairytale, magic miracle performing lord, 2025, is just sickening to me.
Religion should be studied sociologically, psychologically, and historically for what it actually is, mythology and superstition. It should be studied for how it's been used as a tool for control of the ignorant and poor masses, by the elites to keep power and wealth.
But no. 70-80% or more of people on this planet still actually believe in fairytale bronze age mythology nonsense. Doctors, senators, police, military leadership, judges.
We have split the atom, discovered quantum mechanics, have robots and helicopters on Mars, cured diseases. Yet we are still so archaic and uncivilized. Religion should have died already.
Until you can explain the universe with a formula religion will not die, and even then the formula could be argued to be the rational expression of god. And it is not clear to me that religion is bad. Bad people are bad, (although I entirely dismiss the notion of evil) and they use structures in religions, politics et all to do bad things. But that doesn’t mean that religion itself is bad.
I’m not religious myself, but there’s very clearly a place for religion even in modern civilizations. Also one fundamental aspect of religion that many critics miss because they confuse it with spirituality, is community. More than ever people need a sense of community, and I think that for many people religion can be the thing that gives them that.
And after saying all that, people should have the freedoms to believe whatever the fuck they want honestly.
until you can conquer the fear of death and the unknown, religion will persist.
People should not be afraid of death. We were dead for 13.8 billion years before we were here.