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The argument that religious beliefs are good for society is IMO very week. I see very little correlation between safe, prosperous, high-trust societies and religious beliefs.

What I see is religion beeing used as an effective excuses to do what you would have otherwise already done, bee it good and bad.

The issues with that is of course that we often exempt religious beliefs from the scrutiny and demands we place on other beliefs. Both demands from within and for each others.

threeseries 2y ago

Can you provide some examples of safe and prosperous secular societies? The main ones that come to mind are communist countries which haven't fared too well historically.

Also what do you mean by justifying what we would have already done? Do you mean if we didn't have a 2,000+ year Judeo-Christian tradition that we'd have the same morality? There are a lot of ideas that ethical monotheism introduced that were completely alien at the time so this seems unlikely.

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OpenSourceOptimist 2y ago

Good example could be to compare https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country

OpenSourceOptimist 2y ago

All top 5 in HDI are in 20 twenty of lowest importance of religion.