(1)I don't think that laws wouldn't have been thought up without religion BUT religion has always been a factor. Throughout history, something wasn't just a crime against a person/people, it was a crime against a deity.
2) I absolutely did not say anything about a bible, but then again we are not talking about Christianity are we? we are talking religion in general. In my opinion, religion evolves, it doesn't die.
3) What does education have to do with religion? Not much? Well, for one, hundreds of thousands of volumes of historical literature were burned in the dark ages you speak of. Any lick of literature we have before, during, and after the fall of Rome is really due to fervent bookmaking, brought to you exclusively by the church. Math, science and technology, you may not know this, was a fundamental part of the early church. I digress, I don't care to defend Christianity, because we both know that eventually the church would grow into a tyrant (suppressing much of the knowledge it had previously promoted).
And com'mon, you think that PEOPLE will suddenly stop believing in a god, afterlife, and divine retribution? Give me a break with the "educated people aren't believers" crap. Who cares about the US? You are of the first-world perspective, where religion doesn't have as much value anymore. Why would it? Are you starving? Do you have clothing on your back? Are you constantly seeing people around you die from disease? Is your woman being raped? Your son, has he been kidnapped? Your government, foul as any government may be, isn't killing it's own constituents. The fact that you aren't experiencing any of these things means that your very well off. Well off enough to not care about a god, whom most impoverished people pray will avenge them.
Seriously, we could go on and on about this. Is it really worth it?
Is it normal that I want religion to disappear from our planet?
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(1)I don't think that laws wouldn't have been thought up without religion BUT religion has always been a factor. Throughout history, something wasn't just a crime against a person/people, it was a crime against a deity.
2) I absolutely did not say anything about a bible, but then again we are not talking about Christianity are we? we are talking religion in general. In my opinion, religion evolves, it doesn't die.
3) What does education have to do with religion? Not much? Well, for one, hundreds of thousands of volumes of historical literature were burned in the dark ages you speak of. Any lick of literature we have before, during, and after the fall of Rome is really due to fervent bookmaking, brought to you exclusively by the church. Math, science and technology, you may not know this, was a fundamental part of the early church. I digress, I don't care to defend Christianity, because we both know that eventually the church would grow into a tyrant (suppressing much of the knowledge it had previously promoted).
And com'mon, you think that PEOPLE will suddenly stop believing in a god, afterlife, and divine retribution? Give me a break with the "educated people aren't believers" crap. Who cares about the US? You are of the first-world perspective, where religion doesn't have as much value anymore. Why would it? Are you starving? Do you have clothing on your back? Are you constantly seeing people around you die from disease? Is your woman being raped? Your son, has he been kidnapped? Your government, foul as any government may be, isn't killing it's own constituents. The fact that you aren't experiencing any of these things means that your very well off. Well off enough to not care about a god, whom most impoverished people pray will avenge them.
Seriously, we could go on and on about this. Is it really worth it?