@JLeslie Everyone will like to think that, but I came to my conclusion by elimination. If you got rid of religion around the world, and educated everyone enough to know what is good for society as a whole, and for the planet.
You will still have people polluting, you will still have people creating war over territory, you will still have those wanting cheap labor and not caring how it comes about or what short cuts are taken that are ruining the environment, and you will still have people who want it all, no matter who it hurts. Because the one thing you can never get rid of without a lobotomy is ego, and greed and you can’t teach compassion and understanding.
One of the reasons I admire the drug cartel before these right wing rich thugs. They both commit crimes and both say they are Christian, but the cartel will tell you out right that they either will kill you because you are in their way of their business, or simply because they wanted to flex their muscles. They don’t pretend and use religion to excuse their crimes. But they make my point. Greed and power will always ensure that there will always be war and struggle to survive. We have never fully emerged from the jungle. Doggy eat doggy world.