Rath on 02 August 2010
Religion was important in forming early societies. I'm not sure how well humanity would have done without religion to cause us to form groups large enough that some people didn't have to spend their entire lives trying to survive and so had time to spend time advancing society.
So maybe the world would be far behind.
On the other hand ever since perhaps the Greeks the early benefits of religion have gone and it has been doing more harm than good in my opinion.
