Kowani wrote:Torrocca wrote:... I'm pretty certain there's no feasible way of getting rid of religion. Even if you somehow abolished the biggest religions, people would still seek out some form of faith, meaning, and purpose in life or another that goes beyond material conditions; whether that came from new ideas of religious or spiritual beliefs or came from ones already existing would be irrelevant, people are still going to seek out answers to questions that go far beyond whatever we experience materially, even under Socialism or Communism.
There’s this thing called education. It’s very good at removing said desires by providing answers.
It was education that caused me to become Christian, and I know many others who have become religious because of higher education. There's a famous anecdote about how a philosophy program at Cambridge was actually shut down because so many of its students converted to Catholicism.