(November 19, 2014 at 4:19 pm)Smaug Wrote: For me the religions are the instruments of control, unification and government in the first place and I consider them to be outdated as opposed to secular ideologies. Secular ideologies can be also at times as violent as religions but at least they don't generally try to screw with peoples' brains as massively as religions do. Though seeing how religions aren't going to be abolished in upcoming years I'd say that the less violent and less dogmatic ones are better of course.
If something changes from idea to ideology, it's always bad news. Religions are in fact ideologies evolving from philosophies. And ideology is by it's very nature exclusive and prone to indoctrination and violence.