Good God

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...then people that weren't religious wouldn't do good things.

Yes, to a degree, because not all religious people are good people. There's the famous quote form Stephen Weinberg

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

The same is true in reverse, albeit somewhat rarer; Religion can make evil people do good things. As can any number of other factors such as money, love, fear etc...

But I can't stress the point enough. We have religion, we can't deny that. As an atheist, I would love to live in a world free of religion, but that's not going to happen any time soon. So the question that remains is, why do I want to live in a world without religion...? Because I want the world to be a better place! Ok, so if we can't get rid of religion overnight, how can it be used to our advantage?

I fear that the Athesist argument against religion full stop is equivalent to a general forsaking the advantage of higher ground in a battle because he objects to hills in principle.

I don't believe in God, but if I can manipulate someone else's belief to make the world a better place, I sure as shit would. And consider that people have no problem manipulating religious beliefs to make the world a worse place. They're enjoying the benefit of a very powerful tool that we as Atheists refuse to use, to our own detriment. It's insane.