Would the World Be Safer Without Religion?
If religion makes people want to murder each other, maybe religion is bad for the world.
Killing in the name of God or religious belief, which shames every religion, ought to give the person of faith pause.
But should
it cause us to abandon faith? Would the world be better off if religion disappeared?
Some people would say yes, and since it’s impossible to conduct this experiment, as faith is definitely not going away,
we can’t be sure. But when we observe the horror of religiously motivated violence or hatred, maybe the correct
question is, "without religion would it be even worse"?
