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I'm not religious myself, but I just had this discussion on an article I posted on Facebook the other day. I think it is undeniable that the various religions of the world have done some very good things and very bad things. Ultimately, though, I think they have provided solid moral guidelines for billions upon billions of people for millennia, and some people (certainly not all, but some) really NEED that moral guidance. The problem comes when people don't respect others' religious beliefs (or lack thereof) when they differ from their own.

So while religion has never really been particularly important in my life, I think on the whole it has been a force more for good than for bad (note: neither one erases the other). If we could just chill as a species and stop hating each other over which version of a higher power we revere (or don't), the world would be awesome. But wiping religion out from the world might have vast unintended consequences.
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