I swear you people act like religion only brings war and intolerance to people, when in fact it has also been responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.


Religion got people to think about big ideas and ponder the universe.

I'm sure you can argue that we don't need religion to do that now, but I hate when people conveniently leave out the other ways that religion builds and influences culture.

Regardless of how much it benefits the elites, if religion didn't offer something else to society at large it wouldn't have sustained itself for so long.

There are things to be gained out of reading the Holy Texts of the worlds major religions. The Vedic texts, the Quran, the Bible, etc. All of them contain beautiful poetry and philosophical thoughts worth pondering, not to mention their value to the field of anthropology.