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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Without religion we would all be living like barbarians. It is religion in one form or another that shaped human society.
Everything from our concepts of charity to human decency to public order was heavily influenced by (and in many cases created by) organized religion.
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IMO a more appropriate statement would be that religion was the tool used to 'form and shape' the above, not the cause of it.
Someone had to dream up these results and a means to obtain them. Religion was the easiest way to influence large masses of ignorant people way back when. It can still be somewhat effective today though government has superceded much of it's former reign (at least in more advanced cultures).