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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
yeah. i am not trying to argue what is true or what is not. i just don't buy that secularism turns people into beasts and religion is the only thinking keeping us from being animals. it seems quite the opposite in most casese.
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I agree. It is an unfounded fear of the religious.
It is a somewhat testable hypothesis as well. If true, you would expect to find highly irreligious societies wrought with moral / social problems and highly religious societies not so. That seems to fly in the face of the evidence.