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Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan  You don't need religion to engage in positive social structures. You don't need religion to be a charitable person. You don't need religion be be a loving person, or to live ethically. Meanwhile, the net negative impacts of religion are a reality that many, many people need to reconcile. |
I wonder if the net negative impacts of religion are not as bad as if we never had any religion. How can this be compared? To imagine the earth without religions we can see many bad events might go away - but what might have occurred without religions - we don't know, we might have ended up worse if no religion ever came about.
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To me, that's certainty more important to delve into than telling people how to improve habits.
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If that's all Steve's "have no religion" is saying, then it's debatable wrt the overall world state of affairs (how much war or peace there is).