Would humanity be better off without religion. What if religion was never invented would we be more advanced and how many lives would be saved (no killing in name of).
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No. Humans are still tribal.Would humanity be better off without religion.
Well lets say as argument that religion never was invented, we would have no wars about it or killings in the name of religion. So we know what happened in the past take the twin towers they would still be there, the crusades etc never happened either. Knowing what we know now would we be better off.
I think the question as posed slightly misses the mark. As my good friend the well-known member (I know a lot of people who know him, and they all say he's a right member) pointed out, religion is merely a subset of a much broader problem. In fact, in some respects, I'd argue that religion has mitigated at least some of the harm caused by the rest of the set.Would humanity be better off without religion. What if religion was never invented would we be more advanced and how many lives would be saved (no killing in name of).
Actually, I disagree that human nature is the problem or religion itself.
Humans are actually pretty docile in small groups and can work and live together in communities up to around 150 people(Dunbar's Number) without any bigger conflicts. Of course there always will be the odd exception.
I think the problem is not religion, ideology or whatnot, but that we basically are not wired to form big communities and that we get stressed when we have to deal with that on a daily basis. And well .. grumpy, stressed humans can turn even the most benign ideas into something vile. Would also make sense from an evolutionary point of view, after reaching a certain community size, there is no longer a need to preserve our numbers.