You guys are boiling down religion into something that does only harm and causes fighting. I get you aren't religious but you choose to ignore the good religion has done. People have committed terrible acts in the name of religion but they have also committed wondrous acts in the name of religion. What this shows is that religion is so far reaching that humans with all their flaws can use it to justify good or evil. If religion didn't exist, they would use another justification. Belonging to or not belonging to a religion doesn't define how good of a human being you are. But good human beings make something beautiful and see beauty in their religion. And bad hi,an beings destroy and see horrible things in religion. Many of the scientists of Islam's golden age didn't just do research based on curiosity, they wanted to please Allah by ;earning about the beautiful universe they believed He created. Muslims fast in Ramadan partially to understand the pain of those who can't eat because they don't have food or money to buy said food. Every able Muslim is obligated to give 2.5% of his accumulated wealth in charity each year. Islam teaches people to especially take care of orphans which is why many of the orphan sponsorship programs around the world are strated by Muslims.
There is both beauty and horror in humanity and both things are expressed in any sort of ideology we believe, whether it be religion, nationality, political ideology, world view, etc. Humans have done terrible horrible things in the name of religion but they have also done beautiful things in the name of religion. Religion shouldn't cease to exist just because of the former.
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