I actually think the world would be a better place without religion, but that's not to say religion has no role to play in society or that it has not played any role previously, but presently most people hardly understand what the actual tenets of their religious beliefs is, some even go as far as given it their own interpretation and meaning, and more often than not it becomes skewed. The argument of religion v science is one very good example to talk about this, if we're to be honest we live in a world were science has solves quite a lot of problems in our contemporary society today, we can more or less say 'science is our new religion'.

But even at that, most people are still adamant and have refused to adapt and grow with many of this scientific discoveries, many of them even feel science is evil in our world today, but they use vehicles, machines and other things produced out of scientific discoveries, the issue of how humans actually came on the face of the earth has actually caused heated arguments between people who believe in a supreme being and people who subscribe to scientific researches, while the former feels we were created by a supreme being, the later believes in the Darwian theory of evolution, or the big bang theory or any discovery made in the area of how humans came to be.

I think religion has to a large extent limited quite a lot of people to ask rational questions, to take hold steps into making researches, sometimes people actually doubt most of their religious beliefs, but they just lie to themselves and hide the truth from their own self, I feel many people would have contributed to the development of the world through science if there were no religion and that to a large extent continues to limit societal growth and development.