[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Stu

It's really not. You can dispute a church's role in shaping and structuring societies and civilisations versus the comparative harm they have wrought but any usefulness that the major world religions may have had in the past has long evaporated.

I'm hardly atheist by any stretch of the imagination but apart from a new spiritual order I would much rather a world ran by atheists. Organized religion in it's current guise is an antiquated blight on consciousness. Systems of societal control and nothing more.

I can see why religion controlling the world can be problematic

I just mean it's important it exists in some form

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Salman!

I can see why religion controlling the world can be problematic

I just mean it's important it exists in some form

This is a debate and I welcome your contribution just as much as any other persons even though I disagree.

Personally I wouldn't shed a tear if all organised religion followed the Dodo into extinction but fair play Salman.