> So in the absence of religion, there is no racism, no interests and no wars?
Nah. Between the two comments above there's an implication that in the absence of religion there would be somewhat less of those things.
Nah. Between the two comments above there's an implication that in the absence of religion there would be somewhat less of those things.
The desire for wealth is one of the main things that makes it "somewhat less". But I think your "leave a void, someone will fill it" framing is too simple. Big religions don't block much greed, they overlap. So the increase in greed from knocking out religion would not be very much. Because of that and other overlap, the void is a lot smaller than the size of the religions that would be disappearing.