End all Suffering now? you have the power.

[Esquilax]

Wow I really wish I had written that, soooooo true. You could say the same about nationalism and politics too.

The only downside is that we still need common law so in that rightful condemnation of squatting rights to authorship, you still don't want that to be hijacked by any anarchist or fascist.

Yes indeed, which is why I consider religion a method for disseminating the morality that we required for society to continue. In the past, it was probably necessary- that fear that kept people honest and so on, because there simply wasn't the kind of infrastructure in place, nor the technological means to properly execute it. And I think that, had religion never existed, something else would have filled that void.

But we've grown past the need for edicts from on high to lay out our morality for us now. We have the capabilities to define and protect the laws that allow our society to function. When theists claim that god is the source of all morality, they're just being dishonest, and that's the part that gets me. Religion functions by taking credit for great things we already had. We never really needed it to define anything.