There's always a group of people that will turn to religion for a purpose in life. I don't think it would disappear. People want something to follow. So they don't have to think. Because most people are stupid

yea, but nobody is stupid enough to follow something with no credibility

its a crowd mentality thing

a lot of kids believe ssanta is real

but almost no adults think santa is real

so why would they think god is real?

because every other adult believes its real

30% of the world are christians

25% are muslims

20% are hindu

wait was the 20% buddhist...

but I remmeber reading some stats like that...

basically a huge chunk of humans are religious

so everyone's like 'yea I better join a faction!!'

Having some deity like Santa be taught to kids serves the purpose of behaving and being moral, in that same way, a lot of people need Jesus to follow the good person script

that's ridiculous lol

Agreed

you know about the catholic girls being the most insane sluttiest girls right?

Well I didn’t say it was perfect

Girls are sluts regardless

yea but what I mean is like, the whole 'religion makes me moral' argument is bullshit to begin with

atheists have their own moral compass

I disagree

Most people will not adhere to whatever they like thinking is right without some form of punishment

and if they are moral because of religion, it just means that they're doing it cuz they're afraid of going to hell and that they would be immoral af if they don't have religion

Religion serves morality and purpose in that way

Not saying it’s good or bad, it’s what seems to be the case

can you rephrase your sentence

its really confusing

"Most people will not adhere to whatever they like thinking is right without some form of punishment"

You’ll never get millions of people to be cohesive under atheism

They don’t have the foresight to reach existencialism so an old book and an omnipotent bearded man does the job for the them

well.. that's how religion staarted to begin with

but I"m more surprised that people haven't broken through it

What I’m saying in that sentence is people can have all the moral codes they want, most of them will only ever follow whatever is convinient, no one is going to be righteous without being under threat of punishment

yep, I can agree with that, but it is because we understand what's right and wrong that we become truly righteous and moral

you don't see atheists waging war

yo udont see atheists committing terrorism

christians got kkk, muslims got isis

Hence why some form of theism is necessary to any functioning society

kek.