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This brain disease (aka religion) affects us all, poor, rich, smart or dumb. The only solution is a complete eradication, to the last scripture and last preacher. Each affected person is a victim in a way.
The only difference between now and back then is that back then, 100% believed in this shit/superstition/witchcraft, etc, today about 80-85% of people still cling on to such irrational beliefs.
Obviously, we have a long way to go to eradicate this plague.
I don't agree with this but am very familiar with the arguments, being pretty much an atheist. The details don't fit in this thread.
But let me just say that if you did "eradicate this plague," then you have to face what comes next. And as that is the uncontrollable product of a type of revolution, it's likely it would be worse. There are many historical examples of this.
Exactly, that is my number #1 criticism of atheism. Without the concept of God, however you perceive it, the state becomes the defacto God as the highest authority on Earth, accountable to no one. This is why in the USA all of our constitutional rights are "God given" rights, or inalienable if you prefer, as the state can neither grant them nor take them away. Coincidentally this is one reason why I find Communism so abhorrent because its goal is to become the secular God, and as you said history shows how that turns out...