| withdreday said: Religion on the other hand, religion has it issued, but nothing else teaches peopls morals, caring about the less fortunate, etc and nearly all laws are based on religious text, so one is to wonder if humanity would have advanced this far with out it. |
It's hard to tell how morals would have evolved without any form of religion or superstition (since they've been present for millions of years, maybe even before humans were a seperate species). However, that doesn't mean that we wouldn't have any morals at all. Humans are a social species, and just like wolves or chimps or any other species that live in a group, we learned by evolution that we need to work together and that we can't just kill eachother for instance. Of course, wolves would still kill eachother in a fight, but so do humans - no matter how religious. Actually, we got a lot more civil and humane when we took a step away from religion in the 17th-18th century.
Another example: due to rationalism and trust in science, the Greeks moved away from their traditional religion, which helped in establishing democracy. There were even philosophers who were against slavery (since rationality showed that all people are equal), while no religious person even thought of that (since they were no able to improve the random morals of their religion, due to its dogmatic nature).
