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When you weigh this against all the harm organized religion does, I am not sure this argument holds much water. Humans will be fine. We don’t need dodgy 2000 year old books to hold society together.


Remove religion and we'll find something else to create dogmas: political ideals, borders, money...

Religion is just an excuse, anything you can extract moral from is ripe from being abused as a justification for the worst human behavior.

We used communism and eugenism for the same purpose. We had a book, we had a leader, and we had a genocide.


But we do need something. What is the alternative? Our mutual smugness?


Hobbies. Communities based on mutual interest. There is a thing called a Unitarian churches, they are much closer to dogma free than almost any other churches and many focus strongly on community with religion as a secondary thing for many members. I have found a stronger community in BJJ than I ever saw at a church in terms of real relationships. Humans just naturally form social groups with the smallest amount of lubricant.




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