Aureumterra wrote:Region of Dwipantara wrote:Here's my opinion:
1. The Czech republic is a nice and peaceful central European country with good healthcare, high standard of living, and an irreligiousity rate of 72%. Meanwhile, Afghanistan is a totalitarian fundamentalist sh*thole country with quack infrastructure and subsistence-level income. I'm not saying that all religion is bad for society per se, some quite the opposite in fact, but I do say that religion isn't really an important factor.
2. The problem with most religion is that, being a dictatorial commandment from the sky that we must obey or else, they can't evaluate the result of their existence and correct them (or at least efficiently). Humans need principles, sure, but we also need a way to evaluate if those principles makes the world a better place or instead drag ourselves to the 6th century.
Hilarious misunderstanding of most religion
While I do acknowledge that a lot of religion are capable and has been successful at reforms, I maintain that most still slow down those progress. Changing the interpretation of God's words isn't necessarily easy, or certain to be successful, don't you think? Germany lost a third of its population trying to to that.