regardless of whether you think religion is true or not, you cannot deny that it is essential at keeping society stable and functioning

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religion provides a fundamental human need of purpose and meaning to one’s life. humans are inclined to worship or deeply admire/respect something. literally every society and civilisation has a religion

get rid of god, and you end up replacing it with money, power or status. the ussr was an atheist society, yet stalin was almost worshipped like a deity…

atheists tend to make the mistake of assuming that getting rid of religion will somehow get rid of all problems. they don’t realise that humans are innately flawed and are perfectly capable of cruelty without religion