Why should religion have any influence on our lives?

[Ksa]

Listen, darlin'. Sometimes in order to stand up for your beliefs, you need to keep your damned mouth shut.

Your teacher is right: religion does influence society; you're not gonna get around that. Your teacher is not there to give you options, or opinions; she's there to give you facts. Why should she answer a subjective question? Why should she be subjective at all? Whether religion influences sociology is objective, therefore taught. Think for yourself, become an important person, and teach the masses. Your sociology class is proooobably not the place to do that.

Religion influencing society...these are empty words, you can talk like that for 7 days without sleep and not say anything. If I tell you that a magnesium atom influences chemistry in an alkylation reaction, how much chemistry did you learn from me. Empty words.

Think about it, although Islam is a religion of peace, wherever there is a Qur'an, there is war. Irak, Syria...you name it. So there must be something about this peaceful religion that makes people who follow it unpeaceful.

I would say nowadays that the most dysfunctional societies are purely religious ones.