(June 20, 2015 at 11:22 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: I don't know, but I do know we have had a healthy dose of religion for a long time and have yet to reach a utopia.
In the days of religion ruling Europe, there was torture and intolerance. We see the same thing today in some countries ruled by religion. Religion is a great evil. Only deluded fools imagine that the days of the Inquisition were good.
Not all secular societies have been good. But all religious ones have been bad.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.