
Originally Posted by
MuscleScience
It has nothing to do with God or religion and everything to do with anger in people's hearts. Which allows for having an excuse or justification to kill those not in your "tribe." If we banned all religions people would still tribalize along arbitrary lines. Whether it's city, sports team, political affiliation and so on. What does the world look like without religion? We already know that, the nazis and communist were all staunch atheists. Stalin eradicated the Russian Orthodox Church, Hitler severely restricted all religions Christian and Jewish. Mao killed thousands of Buddhist monks and millions of practicing Buddhist.
I'm not particularly religious, I don't take the Bible as the literal word of god. But I do believe in the message that Jesus preached. Whether he was the actual son of god or not is irrelevant to me. As a man he said and preached undeniably good things. He expressed the virtues of Being tolerant, forgiving and without judgment. That's how I try to live my life, by those teachings.
As far as we try to move away from the god question, science brings us back. Just an example, we abolish religions then the next religion would be science. Right now in physics, there is a sizable group of well respected scientist that believe (with experimental evidence to back it) that the universe is a 2D hologram and we live in it much like characters in a video game. That inheriently implies that someone or thing has created a reality. Now say we have this camp that believes this to be true and has evidence and another camp that doesn't, but believes we live in a universe that has 11 dimensions of existence. We divid along those camps and start the process of tribilism and human conflict all over again.
South Park has a really great episode that probably explains this more eloquently than I can. I will see if I can post a link later.