It is hard to know what exactly is a direct causation from religion and what isn't. I don't think I'm comfortable with immediately believing that religion would easily be replaced by something else with the exact same rules and measurements. I think that, while many of the toxic ideas of religion are basic human instincts, that saying we'd end up at nearly the same place or that religion hasn't at least fostered those instincts might be wrong. So really, I don't know, and I'm not going to make an educated guess.







