Religion
In reply to the discussion: Religious Oregon teens wear ‘Gay Is Not OK’ shirts to school to protest lack of ‘straight day’ [View all]el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)on this forum. But that's just my opinion.
One way of looking at it is that religion needs to be less arrogant in assuming that the benefits it provides could only be gained through religious means - that's clearly where you come down.
But another understandable way of looking at it is this - if the benefits of religion could be gained through other means, and if religion has huge drawbacks, than the decision to keep practicing and believing in religion is at best selfish and at worst monstrous. As long as religion is practiced, the drawbacks, like killing kids for example, or retarding scientific progress, or imposing religious rules on people, will continue to afflict society, and the need to prevent that, implies that religion needs to go away along with the negative things it produces. We would be losing nothing, because all of the benefits of religion could be gained through secular means, and we would be gaining a lot by eliminating all of the negative things religion causes.
Bryant