(February 13, 2015 at 3:47 am)robvalue Wrote: Sure, that's very important.
But I think religion is a huge facilitator of the dark sides of humans, and without it people would have to work a lot harder to be as shitty on the same kind of scale.
Religion stifles individual thought and assessment, and encourages a follow the leader attitude, regardless of how corrupt that leader might be.
Additional: even when their own book explains in detail exactly how corrupt the leader is.
Right now the majority of individuals worldwide who hold the label atheists are in the minority so it is much easier being in it to have empathy. But power shifts over time and the current lot will not be around forever. So what we have to constantly pass down as a species is to the next generation is that our behavior, good or bad, is not determined by a label, but is part of a range in our evolution.
