Religion had good intentions, but nature has better

[JuliaL]

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Interesting answers, thank you all.

So, if we are to assert that both religion and political ideologies are fallacious and counterproductive due to their irrational properties, what do we use to guide truth and happiness? We have science to find truth. But where do we find that often self fulfilling and euphoric happiness we may experience in religious ceremonies at one time in our lives (for those of us who are apostates) or that sense of unity and hope we also find in political organizations?

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Is there an alternative medium? Or have we just fallaciously expected too much to come from our unlikely lives on this secluded piece of matter called earth and have consequently and wrongfully micromanaged everything over the course of history?

Humanism and rational self interest provide justification for a morality which has the well being and happiness of people as its goal. As people, we benefit from holding these precepts as good. Personally, I find people altogether too self centered and humanism/self interest has made it pretty tough on all the other sentients on the planet. I really hope that in the afterlife, experimental lab animals don't hold war crimes trials.