Reply #5: Good point.

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Religion always has had a built-in advantage when it comes to organizing (for good or evil), because it has a unifying ideology binding all of its members together in kinship, whereas secular organizations tend to be more diverse.

Most humans are social creatures though, so I think even if religion was taken out of the picture, secular organizations (civic groups, labor unions, political parties, etc.) would fill the gap.

It just seems like religion has outlived its usefulness in many ways, and is still much more reactionary than it is progressive.