America doesn't need more God. It needs more atheists.

[Sympthsical]

116. If religion disappeared tomorrow

Humans would invent other ways to justify their shittiness.

This is a human thing. It isn't the religion causing something. It's the humans causing the religion to send out directives to be shitty. How many times in how many different ways have we heard people - maybe even ourselves - say, "Jesus would not do this shitty thing." Fine, but the humans are managing it on his behalf.

If you look at our society and culture, you do not have to go very far to see non-religious ideologies, attitudes, and modes of thinking that could go real south real fast if allowed. Every day I'm on the Internet, I see some belief system or ideology and think, "Oh, this person is just nuts. Totally bugfuck crazy fanatical about this."

Authoritarians never need God. It's just that God often helps.