Does religion destroy or improve society?

Because many sociologists said religion is nothing , it only causes trouble or have nothing to do with society but in the other hand Durkheim said it bind our society.

What do you thing ? What religious is?

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Temporallube · M

There are things in it that work and I think that’s obvious.

By conditioning the imagination, and filling it with characters of “heaven and prosperity”, and “disobedience and hell”, it brings a type of order, pacification, forced cooperation or otherwise, and a means for the group at the top to get as much subsistence as possible.

With that being said, the cost to the collective of our species has seen more violence, inequity, and unfair treatment under the thumb of religious ideas (I speak of the Abrahamic faiths in particular).

So in some ways there are improvements. But in many ways there are levels of destruction.

Wateribbon · 26-30

@Temporallube Sounds like slavery system