Should organised religion be banned?

[Nautilus]

Ka-pi96 said:

Nautilus said:

In the short term?Maybe.But i dont it will change in the loing run.

As you said, people would go "underground" to have their religion sessions and all.So in the first moment, religion would lose some of its power, since it would be considered "illegal".But even then, the preachers of said religions would still influenciate the people that come for them.And just as woman rights movements or LGTB movement also got track over the years, something that society didnt aprove earlier, those same people that pratice the religions will engage in movements to have their rights back, and as someone said, putting Cristianism and islamism together, you have 2.5 billion persons, so it wouldnt be insignificant.Plus the funding dosent come from official channels or such.It comes from the people that practice the religion, so in that aspect they wouldnt lose much.

All in all, this would acomplish nothing in my opinion.Plus you state the reason that terrorists atacks happen are due to religion, and that is not completely the case(again, my opinion), but thats beyond the point of the thread.

Not entirely. I know there are plenty of terrorist attacks that aren't influenced by religion. But there most certainly are some that are due to religion as well.

But I see what you mean. I still think stopping organised religion would be for the better, but banning it wouldn't accomplish that and stopping it isn't really possible.

As for the 2.5 billion christians and muslims, well how many of them actually go to churches/mosques though? I know in the western world at least that church attendance figures have decreased a fair bit from what they once were. heh, maybe it will just naturally come to an end eventually anyway.

Probably much less than we think.I for one am a christian because oif my mother, and while I like to think there is a god and all, I dont practice the religion.So yeah, I think the tendency is that religion will have its importance decrease, though not to the point of it being insignificant in my opinion.