Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Religions get lost as people do.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
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