(June 21, 2015 at 12:28 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 12:22 am)Faith No More Wrote: You can use "evil" as an adjective to describe something without believing in some supernatural force behind it.
I have to say nothing would really change. Sure, there would be a lot of things for the better, but we're human beings. We'll be a self-destructive species no matter what people believe in, so we'll find new stuff to wreak havoc with.
^^^ This ^^^
People regardless of their beliefs are, on average, still prone to irrationality and poor decision making.
God belief or religion aren't the problem - certain expressions of them are, and even the irreligious can be prone to idiocy.
The only way religion is going to die out is if people stop being so irrational. So if religion did die out, it would necessarily mean that we would have less irrationality. Of course, religion is not going to die out, at least not any time soon. But that is a bad thing, not something good or even neutral.
Religion is caused by, and is also a cause of, irrationality.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
