There seem to be alot of people who say we'd be better off without religion, as if that were even a possibility. They point to many real or percieved injustices or atrocities actually or imaginedly caused by the existence of Christianity et al-- but do they ever stop to think about the alternatives?

The anti-religion fanatics base their postulations on the sorely mistaken premise that human beings are natively rational and moderate creatures-- which is, of course, ridiculous! Human beings are freeking nuts! They're always gonna want to believe one crazy thing or another, and if it weren't the arrogant piety of Christianity or Islam it would be something else, like the paganism and human sacrifice of the Aztecs or the Vikings (yes, the Viking practiced human sacrifice!).

Education will never truly change the nature of society or of man-- if you look closely at our western democracies, supposedly the most universally "educated" in all history, it will quickly become evident that no one has really got any smarter-- they've just become consumerist whores with "educated" tastes.

Therefore even if all of the Christian and Buddhist and Islamic denominations and churches and churches of all other persuasions were made to permanently disband tomorrow, it would be possibly the most laughably futile act in all of human history. Humans are permanently crazy, and religion (under whatever name) is an irremoveable facet of that lunacy.

DA