Religious forces integrate or disintegrate humanity?

[blazeofglory]

This post has likelihoods of stirring surges of vexations and angers. Maybe it is not to the likings of some of the posters here. But with utmost modesty I want to raise certain issues with regard to religious forces. It I suppose does not infringe on anyone’s domains of interests and faiths. But religion in this day cannot be a subject that can easily be dodged. Someway it touches our domains when we are in society. It has stirred great objections and furors in the past, but a modern reader no matter which faiths he or she holds does not mind when it is critiqued.

The question is whether the world will be more integrated without religions or with religions. At one end it kindles some of the best humane attributes like love, kindness, spirit of mutuality, unity, ethicality and the like, but at the other end, of course at the extreme end it has been brutal forces and that have evidently been divisive forces in the world.

Now amongst us there are some people who do not believe in God and religions. And still others who want religions to be dominants. I am torn between these two disparagingly warring forces.

I do not make any inference here. Just it occurred to me to lay before people, particularly liberals who never mind critiquing religions. And what is more it does not side with any particular sets and therefore does not breach the rules here.

[Judas130]

Religion is a monolith that has bound culture, history and race together for years on end and through varying disciplines. With the spread of a certain religion, so to is the ideological beliefs of the concerned community spread to the minds of a greater audience. In practise and dogma, people unite.
However, with Religion we have seen the dark ages and the enlightenment, where the Christian Church had held back humanity's progress and discoveries and censored real knowledge that would push mankind forward, yet challenge traditional concepts that the religion held dear.
Without Religion we do not have the same banner to flag - unless it is the banner of some ideal - the banner with a swastika, or with a symbol of secular peace (☮) that also unites us.
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