Quote from: af_newbie on Today at 11:36:33 AM

When early Homo sapiens communities were forming religions and common myths served a very important role. They unified communities behind common goals and provided rules to govern those communities and societies.

Today, we have developed more sophisticated secular systems to govern ourselves. And those systems are far superior to systems based on religions because they can change as more information becomes available.

Religious systems of governance are static and in some cases illogical because they are unable to change with the modern world.

Today, religions are regressive, they try to hang on to their archaic knowledge in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

The world would be a much better place if we abandoned these ancient myths.

100% agree. and has always been my thought. early religion was government. the bible is the lawbook of ancient times.
as an example back before condoms. the laws stopped gay-sex, out of wedlock sex to pretend STI's/STD's

these days those old rules dont apply as technology and knowledge and stuff have taken over those barbaric laws of promoting death for having sex under those conditions.

modern religion is more psychological. for those that cannot understand nature and random events. people that become anxious/depressed over things they cannot understand. religion fills that gap by putting a face to the event. kind of like shift the blame to the special entity you cant sue.
EG if you feel guilty of something, its suppose to absolve your guilt by making your subconscious believe you should blame god instead of yourself. then you can let go of your grief/guilt and lead a happy in life, free from torturing yourself

this has then become abused to then really shift the blame.. as an excuse. and be used by idiots to actually perform atrocities and crimes thinking they can get away with it because 'special entity in space'

i dont mind the small psychological therapy methodology to get over guilt/grief for personal growth and happiness. but when its used to the extremes of being used to cause bad crap to happen, as the excuse.. then religion has steeped too far into society